section_path: Foreign policy/Africa
section_name: Africa
paragraph_text: Africa
  
  Trump's administration strained relations with South Africa. Trump suspended all aid to South Africa, saying the country's land expropriation law discriminated against Afrikaners; he also offered Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S. Rubio refused to attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Johannesburg and he declared the South African ambassador persona non grata for his criticism of U.S. policies. Rubio condemned the Rwandan -backed Goma offensive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and called for an immediate ceasefire and respect for territorial integrity. U.S. officials entered into talks with the DRC on a minerals deal after a proposal from Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi. In April 2025, the U.S. revoked all visas of and barred entry to citizens of South Sudan after a dispute over the deportation of a South Sudanese citizen.