{"id":15138,"date":"2025-11-13T05:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/au-commission-chairperson-bemoans-us-g20-boycott-as-unfortunate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:28","slug":"au-commission-chairperson-bemoans-us-g20-boycott-as-unfortunate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/au-commission-chairperson-bemoans-us-g20-boycott-as-unfortunate\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Commission Chairperson bemoans US G20 boycott as &#8216;unfortunate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was speaking alongside the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres at the conclusion of the 9th annual AU-UN Conference in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Both were asked about the US position that South Africa should not be in the G20 and Washington&#8217;s criticism of the development focus on this year&#8217;s G20 agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;It is indeed unfortunate that the US boycotted this G20 Summit. But let me reassure you, I think the African continent has decided to take its destiny in its hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">And we are definitely working to increase self-reliance. We are working to mobilise domestic resources for our development programmes. As far as the \u00a0G20 is concerned, this is a new platform for the African continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It will be the first time that we will be hosting the G20 in SA and it will be the first time that the AU will participate as a full member,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15139,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-15138","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf says it's unfortunate that the United States (US) has boycotted the first G20 Leaders' Summit hosted in Africa","published_date":"2025-11-13 00:00:00","news_description":"African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf says it's unfortunate that the United States (US) has boycotted the first G20 Leaders' Summit hosted in Africa","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15138\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}