Nigeria's National Assembly suspended official visits to South Africa over anti-migrant violence targeting Nigerians. [1] AP filed the freeze as indefinite for lawmakers and legislative engagements. [1] Al Jazeera filed the same boycott. [2] A parliamentary suspension is not a closed embassy. Print visits suspended. Do not print a severed state.

The assembly cited killings, injuries, and destroyed businesses in Friday copy. [1] Those are the stated reasons. They are not a new casualty table this desk will invent. Print the freeze. Leave a named death count to the edition that owns a named count.

Friday recap that treats a boycott as a broken mission is a feed, not AP. Print the National Assembly's word. Print not an embassy close.

Parliamentary boycotts are the National Assembly's pressure valve when citizens die abroad. Embassies stay open while visits freeze. Friday's suspension is signal, not severance.

Signal beats severance because embassies take years to reopen and minutes to close. Friday chose the reversible option. Reversible is the point.

Reversible visits freeze; Friday's suspension is the National Assembly's valve. Embassies stay open. Not a close.

Friday chose the reversible option. Embassies stay open. Not a close.

Lawmakers in Abuja froze official travel after anti-migrant attacks on Nigerians, and Al Jazeera logged the boycott too. Indefinite describes those visits, not the embassy. The assembly's stated grounds stay the stated grounds. Stopping visits does not break a mission.
Abuja froze official travel after anti-migrant attacks on Nigerians, and Al Jazeera logged the boycott too. Indefinite describes those visits, not the embassy. Stopping visits does not break a mission.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos