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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

US in talks to attend G20 summit after initial boycott, South Africa says

A brightly coloured sign reads G20: South Africa 2025, next to a series of tall white pots with palm-type green plants, which a gardener in green overalls and white hat is tending.
The summit takes place at the weekend at the Nasrec Expo centre in Johannesburg. Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters

The US has changed its mind about attending the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa’s president has said, without confirming whether Donald Trump, who had said the US would boycott the event, now wanted to come.

Trump has claimed that South Africa racially discriminates against the minority white Afrikaner community, which led the country during the apartheid regime that ended in 1994.

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