{"id":253721,"date":"2026-07-14T23:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253721"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:00:43","slug":"citizens-diplomacy-in-focus-federal-government-has-evacuated-1490-nigerians-from-south-africa-following-xenophobic-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/citizens-diplomacy-in-focus-federal-government-has-evacuated-1490-nigerians-from-south-africa-following-xenophobic-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"CITIZENS DIPLOMACY IN FOCUS: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS EVACUATED 1,490 NIGERIANS FROM SOUTH AFRICA FOLL&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Press-Release-No-2026-142.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Press Release No 2026 142<br\/><\/a>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-253724\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-21-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-21-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-21-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-21.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-253723\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-33-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-33-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-33-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-33-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-33.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mfa-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253726,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253721\/revisions\/253726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}