In a statement, the Standing Committee of the Political Commission of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) considers "ignoble acts that attack the dignity of the human person" the reports of disagreements, "some serious", between Chinese and members of the African community in the Asian country.
UNITA called on the executive to take all necessary measures to protect and secure the lives of Angolans who, for various reasons, are currently in China.
The second political force in the country expressed its solidarity with the content of the letter of protest from the African ambassadors in Beijing.
"With the same purpose, to urge our country's executive to urgently consult, within the framework of the African Union, with a view to taking a firm common position to put an end, and now, to this cruelty of the Chinese against the Africans", says UNITA in the communiqué.
UNITA reinforces that if this framework prevails in China, "it will dramatically damage the colossal interests between the People's Republic of China and Africa, relations that are both adult and mutually beneficial".
UNITA recalls that that Asian country played an active role in solidarity with the African nationalist movement in the 1960s and 1970s and is "grateful to it for having benefited from this progressive vein of the People's Republic of China".
According to the communiqué, the Chinese-African relationship then experienced developments that led Chinese to establish themselves in Africa and Africans to reside in China, driven by individual, collective or state representative interests.
African authorities have publicly confronted China over alleged mistreatment of African citizens in Canton, which the United States also says targeted African Americans.
According to the Associated Press (AP), there have been reports of Africans being turned away and discriminated against in a shopping mall because of fear of the new coronavirus.
AP also alluded to a security alert issued this Saturday from the U.S. embassy in China, which noted that "police ordered bars and restaurants not to serve customers who appear to be of African origin" and that local authorities have ordered mandatory testing and 'self quarantine' for "anyone with African contacts".
The embassy also reported that some companies and hotels refuse to do business with African-Americans in response to increased infections in the Chinese city of Canton (Guangzhou), north of Macao and Hong Kong.
African diplomats met with officials from the Chinese Foreign Ministry to express "concern and condemnation of the disturbing and humiliating experiences" to which their "citizens were subjected", revealed the Sierra Leone Embassy in Beijing, in a statement issued on Friday.
At least 14 Sierra Leoneans were placed in compulsory quarantine for 14 days, according to the communiqué.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters Thursday that the priority in China is to prevent "imports [of the virus] from abroad" and acknowledged that "there may be some misunderstandings in the implementation of measures.
However, Zhao said China "treats all foreigners equally.
