South Africa and Ghana are in a diplomatic dispute after Ghana reported that a Ghanaian man died during anti-migrant protests in Cape Town. Ghana’s Foreign Affairs ministry says it received information that Bashiru Isak, 40, was shot dead on Tuesday in the Khayelitsha township, and it has described the reports as shocking. South African officials deny that the death was linked to the protests, according to multiple outlets covering the dispute. One report states Pretoria rejects claims that a Ghanaian citizen was killed in anti-migrant protests in Cape Town. The disagreement is playing out against a backdrop of heightened tensions in South Africa over undocumented migration, where anti-immigrant sentiment has been rising in some areas. The outlets agree that the dispute centers on how Isak died and whether anti-migrant unrest was involved. At this stage, the accounts differ between Ghana’s report of a shooting during protests and South Africa’s denial of any such connection, leaving the cause and circumstances of the death contested between the two governments.