Leaders and delegates from the world’s richest nations and top developing countries are gathering this weekend for the Group of 20 summit in South Africa, an event overshadowed by the boycott of U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.
Africa’s first G20 summit will see representatives of 42 countries, but not the United States, a founding member of the group and one that’s supposed to be taking over its rotating presidency in Johannesburg.
Trump has denounced South Africa’s leadership of the G20 and said he would not attend, citing alleged discrimination of the country’s white farmers. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said he’s told Trump that information about the alleged persecution of Afrikaners is “completely false.”
Last Friday, Trump also said that no U.S. officials would attend the gathering. The U.S. boycott has dominated discussions — more so than the summit’s agenda, which includes climate resilience, debt sustainability for
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