Anger at treatment of Africans fleeing Ukraine

Africans in Ukraine PIC. AFP
Africans in Ukraine PIC. AFP

Nigeria's government has condemned reports that its citizens, and those of other African countries, have been stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine.

Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were "not tending to Africans".

"We've been chased back, we've been hit with police armed with sticks," he told the BBC.


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