US to boycott G20 in South Africa, Trump says

The US president said it was a "total disgrace" that South Africa is hosting the meeting, where leaders from the world's largest economies will gather in Johannesburg later this month. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke..

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Donald Trump has announced the US will boycott the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa, claiming persecution of white people in the country. This decision was described as “regrettable” by South Africa’s foreign ministry, which stated the success of the summit does not rest on one member state.

Trump claims Afrikaners are being "killed and slaughtered," and their land "illegally confiscated," assertions the South African government calls "widely discredited."
Chrispin Phiri, a spokesman for South Africa's foreign ministry, accused Trump of “orchestrating an imagined crisis” and using South Africa’s "painful history of colonial past."
South Africa’s foreign ministry emphasized that the characterization of Afrikaners as an exclusively white group is "ahistorical" and claims of persecution are "not substantiated by fact."

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