The first batch of Nigerians fleeing xenophobic violence in South Africa has arrived back in in the main city of Lagos.
The 188 people on board the free flight from Johannesburg were the first returnees of around 600 Nigerians who have said they want to return home following the trouble which saw some foreign-owned businesses targeted.
One of the returnees, Israel Oluwaseun, has been explaining to the BBC's Newsday programme why he came back:
Quote Message: I've experienced so much xenophobic situation going on in South Africa. I experienced the one in 2014, I experienced another one that was not too bad, but if you look at it, it's growing.
Quote Message: It's not something that has been corrected."
But he said his time in South Africa was not wasted:
Quote Message: I don't regret being in South Africa. It was a big lesson for me... it really engineered me for being a very hard-working person. Working so hard to achieve everything I want to achieve."
Punch newspaper has been sharing a video of the Nigerians arriving home.
One man, who worked as a mechanic in South Africa, said that during the violence some people came to his workshop and "burned the whole place and burned all the cars".
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VIDEO: Tales of woes as first batch of Nigerians return from South Africa
https://twitter.com/MobilePunch/status/1172019181371494400
Twelve people died in the violence, but according to the South African government, 10 of the victims were South African and neither of the other two were Nigerian.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sent an envoy to South Africa last week to "express Nigeria's displeasure over the treatment of her citizens".
In a statement, the president's office said the envoy had "stressed the need for [the] South African government to take visible measures to stop violence against citizens of brotherly African nations".
As the week progressed, people across the continent shared videos on WhatsApp which purported to show violent attacks on Nigerians. But these were denounced as being misleading.