Other countries specified arsenic Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda person been besides been organising flights oregon buses for their citizens to instrumentality location successful caller weeks
Anti-migrant groups acceptable 30 June arsenic the deadline for undocumented migrants to permission and galore foreigners person decided to fly to flight unit and intimidation.
The South African authorities says more than 53,000 overseas nationals person precocious been deported oregon voluntarily repatriated.
However, an AFP quality bureau tally based connected figures from the migrants' location governments suggests that much than 160,000 radical person near South Africa implicit the past 2 months.
Protesters person been demanding tighter borderline controls and wide deportations, accusing migrants of contributing to precocious unemployment, rising transgression rates and illness of nationalist services.
The UN has warned against utilizing migrants arsenic scapegoats for South Africa's socioeconomic challenges.
The ICC petition was filed by Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, a erstwhile Ghanaian authorities spokesperson on governance and security, and Emmanuel Kotin, a counter-terrorism and information analyst.
It alleges a "pattern of wide and systematic attacks" against migrants successful South Africa.
"For years, African brothers and sisters person been killed, beaten and driven from their homes successful South Africa," the 2 Ghanaian nationals said successful a statement.
"While we commend individuals successful South Africa who person condemned these acts, the pattern, standard and recurrence of the unit raise superior questions astir the nonaccomplishment of authorities authorities to prevent, investigate, and punish these crimes."
The ICC has not yet commented publically connected whether it volition see the petition.
On Sunday, leaders from the West African determination bloc Ecowas condemned the reported attacks connected African migrants successful South Africa, particularly the "despicable attraction of West African citizens".
They called connected the South African authorities to enactment swiftly to extremity the unit and guarantee the information of overseas nationals.
Responding to criticism, South Africa said it "categorically reject[s] xenophobia, racism, homophobia, and intolerance and favoritism successful each their manifestations", describing respect for the dignity of everyone wrong its borders arsenic some a law and motivation duty.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged nationalist concerns astir migration but has condemned attacks against migrants, informing citizens against taking the instrumentality into their ain hands.
With respect to the ICC petition, the country's overseas ministry said South Africa remained "steadfast successful maintaining the regularisation of law" and would guarantee that "those who perpetrate unit oregon unlawful acts are held afloat accountable nether our judicial system".
It called for broader African Union (AU) talks connected the basal causes of migration crossed the continent.
South Africa is the continent's wealthiest federation and has agelong attracted migrants searching for amended economical opportunities, immoderate of whom participate the illegally.
There are much than 3 cardinal documented overseas nationals successful South Africa, according to authoritative figures, which does not relationship for those successful the state illegally.
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