Four days ago, Mozambican immigrant Lado Amido answered a knock at his door in the South African town of Kleinmond. Outside, an angry crowd told him foreigners such as him had to leave. They went ​door-to-door delivering the same message. Amido fled and spent two nights in the mountains. Now he is sheltering ‌in a local town hall, like other immigrants from Malawi and Mozambique across South Africa’s Western Cape province, forced to hide from anti-immigrant mobs in several coastal towns. South Africa has seen a wave of anti-immigrant protests, which have sometimes turned violent, in recent weeks. Mozambique said five of its ​citizens were killed in xenophobic attacks in the town of Mossel Bay over the weekend. Amido lives in Kleinmond, about 300 ​km (186 miles) away.

Full report : African migrants flee into the mountains as South Africa’s xenophobic violence surges.