Last week, videos of Africans being evicted from their rented apartments in the Chinese city of Guangzhou made rounds on social media. In the videos, Africans and other people of black descent were seen roaming on the streets in China after heir landlords evicted them, in addition to hotels and restaurants putting them away.
The Kenyan government through their embassy in Chinese capital Beijing has started on the process of evacuating all Kenyans that are facing racist attacks in China, provided they are willing to meet the evacuation costs.
The Kenyan Embassy, putting emphasis on the fact that those willing to be evacuated should not be infected with coronavirus, has asked them to start filing their details in order to draw up a thorough evacuation plan.
Yesterday, Ugandan legislator Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, working with American businessman Neil Nelson expressed their willingness to airlift stranded Africans from China, in a letter he wrote to the Prime Minister, Ruhakana Rugunda.
In the letter, Bobi Wine requested that Uganda allows to receive Ugandans, citizens of fraternal African states and African-Americans stuck in parts of China.
“We are offering to airlift them to safety in any willing country. Let’s continue to raise awareness and to appeal to home countries to accept and receive these individuals who are being treated with extreme indignity,” he said.
In President Museveni’s last address to the country about COVID-19, he said that government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will draw up plans to safely airlift Ugandans trapped in China.