Africa Fumes at Omicron Travel Bans: ‘Racism Is a Very Blunt Tool’

Africa Fumes at Omicron Travel Bans: ‘Racism Is a Very Blunt Tool’


More African leaders on Monday joined South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera in condemning travel bans against their nations – imposed hurriedly by U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western and Asian governments after the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant – as unreasonable actions driven by virus panic and racist animosity towards Africans.

Malawi’s Chakwera on Sunday accused the Biden administration, and others who imposed travel bans, of “Afrophobia.”

Ramaphosa said the travel restrictions are “completely unjustified…

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