Ramaphosa’s G7 exclusion and Ruto’s rising star amid US, SA row

President William Ruto gifts his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron with a Kenyan artifact during bilateral talks in New York, US.

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France, hosts of June’s meeting, deny claims that they omitted South Africa from the list of invitees on account of pressure from the United States, an account supported by US government official

French officials on Thursday denied excluding South Africa from the list of invitees to the G7 leaders' summit in June due to pressure from Washington, saying Kenya had been invited instead ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's visit there later this year.