Nigeria, April 3 -- South Africa's invitation to attend the G7 summit in June has been withdrawn, sparking public disagreements. Last week, the country disclosed that France had disinvited it from the G7. French President Emmanuel Macron personally invited South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during last year's G20 summit in Pretoria, where he spoke of Paris's commitment to multilateralism.

South Africa was supposed to attend the event as an observer country, along with India, Brazil and South Korea.

However, last week, a spokesperson for Mr Ramaphosa, Vincent Magwenya, announced that the invitation had been withdrawn due to US pressure, barely three days before the event and a day after news of Kenya's invitation broke.

The BBC rep...