Ghana’s President Condemns Trump’s Fake News Claims About Genocide Against White South Africans

By Semafor Africa

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Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama said in a rare op-ed that US President Donald Trump’s “unfounded accusations” of a genocide targeting South Africa’s white minority was an insult to all Africans.

The American president’s claims conflict with the actual racial persecution and massacresthat took place in the country during the two centuries of colonization and nearly 50 years of apartheid, he wrote in The Guardian.

“When it comes to interactions with the world beyond our continent, we are each other’s bellwether,” he wrote, arguing that even as Trump pressured Pretoria, “real genocides are happening in real time all across the globe.”