The Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa is set to end on Sunday with another diplomatic spat involving the US after the host country refused to hand over the rotating presidency of the bloc to what it described as a junior US official. The US boycotted the two-day meeting of leaders from rich and emerging economies in Johannesburg over the Trump administration’s claims that South Africa is violently persecuting its Afrikaner white minority.

The US is due to take over as G20 president for 2026, and says it will host its summit at President Donald Trump’s golf club in Doral, Florida. But South Africa insisted that a traditional handover ceremony at the end of this summit likely won’t happen because the US only wanted to send a diplomatic official from its embassy, calling it an insult to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.