# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says it will be engaging with the World Health Organisation to correct what it views as inaccurate portrayals of fatalities linked to the country’s escalating immigration crisis. This comes after WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced stated last Friday that at least five Ethiopian and five Mozambican nationals were killed, with thousands more displaced amid alleged anti-immigrant protests. The department’s spokesperson, Chrispin Phiri, says the deaths of the Ethiopian nationals stemmed from organised crime rather than xenophobic attacks.
DIRCO to engage WHO on misleading statements on migrant deaths in SA