Tensions are running high in the Chinese city of Guangzhou over coronavirus rumours. Rumours has it that Africans are spreading the deadly coronavirus flu.
According to community leaders hundreds of Africans remain unable to go to their home and hotel rooms after being evicted.
The Guangdong provincial government has responded to concerns of discrimination by calling China and Africa good friends, partners and brothers.
In Guangzhou many are concerned over the Africans’ treatment.
A Nigerian student who doesn’t want to be named revealed he was evicted from his home, arrested and forced into quarantine.
“Please we are begging the world to come to our rescue. The way that the Chinese government is treating us is unfair. They arrested me and forced me into quarantine and forced [me] into paying for the hotel,” he said.
Some Chinese are defending the Africans, a video trending online showed a small group of Chinese traders marching through the area where African traders would usually congregate in protest. They claimed their business had suffered as many Africans were no longer able to trade.
