French officials have denied claims by the office of South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa's that France has excluded South Africa from the list of invitees to June's G7 leaders' summit in Paris under pressure from Washington, saying Kenya has been invited instead.
South Africa, a regular guest at previous G7 summits, said on Thursday that it had been excluded after initially being invited around two weeks ago, saying the US had threatened to boycott the summit if South Africa was invited.
