France, June 13 -- Nigeria is the latest African country to organise evacuation flights from South Africa, with a first group of 262 Nigerians repatriated on Thursday.

The Nigerian government has chartered four other flights over the next two weeks. According to Nigeria's Foreign Ministry, 1,092 Nigerians have so far registered to leave South Africa voluntarily.

Zimbabwe, Ghana, Mozambique and Malawi have already repatriated hundreds of their citizens in recent weeks.

Since April, a series of anti-immigration protests have led to attacks on foreign workers in the rainbow nation. As unemployment hovers above 30 percent, angry locals claim other Africans are taking their jobs.

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