During the summit’s opening on Tuesday morning, June 4, 2024, Africans who live in Korea from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Egypt gathered to protest their leaders being invited to the country in Ilsan City, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, where the two-day summit taking place.
Ethiopians in Korea staged a protest against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia, since he took power in 2018 nearly a million Ethiopians have died of civil war, conflicts, and famine and over 5 million people internally displaced due to his inability to lead the country. Abiy waged terrible battles in the Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia regions of Ethiopia where his national defense forces committed war atrocities, genocide, and siege. Abiy’s drone attacks on civilians are a concern to the UN Human Rights Office troubled by the devastating impact of drone strikes and other violence on the population in the Amhara region as clashes continue between the ENDF and its allies and ethnic Amhara militia known as Fano.
Egyptians protested by chanting no to Abdel Fattah el Sisi’s government, condemning the detainment of solidarity activists with Palestine. Nigerians who advocate for the establishment of the Republic of Biafra, in Nigeria, call for free Biafra and demand a referendum.
