{"id":8593,"date":"2025-11-24T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/munghanalonenefm\/?articles=south-africa-concludes-contentious-g20-summit-amid-u-s-boycott"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:52:14","slug":"south-africa-concludes-contentious-g20-summit-amid-u-s-boycott","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/articles\/south-africa-concludes-contentious-g20-summit-amid-u-s-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Concludes Contentious G20 Summit Amid U.S. Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"375\"><strong data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"170\">Johannesburg.\u00a0 <\/strong>The 2025 G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit wrapped up in Johannesburg on Sunday, closing a tense gathering marked by a high-profile boycott from the United States and disagreements over the summit\u2019s final declaration.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"375\">\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"676\">South African President <strong data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"420\">Cyril Ramaphosa<\/strong> officially brought the summit to a close after rejecting a U.S. request to hand over the G20 presidency to a junior diplomat. The U.S., under President Donald Trump, declined to send a senior representative, intensifying diplomatic strain at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"676\">\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"1000\">Despite the tensions, world leaders adopted a <strong data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"749\">122-point declaration<\/strong> focusing on climate action, gender equality, global debt relief and reforms to international financial institutions. Analysts described the outcome as a diplomatic win for South Africa, which pushed through the declaration without full U.S. support.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"1000\">\n<p data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1248\">On the sidelines, Indian Prime Minister <strong data-start=\"1042\" data-end=\"1059\">Narendra Modi<\/strong>, alongside leaders from Brazil and South Africa, proposed new cooperation under the <strong data-start=\"1144\" data-end=\"1161\">IBSA alliance<\/strong>, including collaboration on digital infrastructure and climate-resilient initiatives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1248\">\n<p data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1381\">Ramaphosa also chaired a meeting of African heads of state to reaffirm the continent\u2019s development priorities within the G20 bloc.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1250\" data-end=\"1381\">\n<p data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1544\">As the summit closed, South Africa formally handed over the G20 presidency to the United States, with the next meeting scheduled to take place in Miami in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg.\u00a0 The 2025 G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit wrapped up in Johannesburg on Sunday, closing a tense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8594,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"article":[],"class_list":["post-8593","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}