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South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees - The Boston Globe

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -37% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Ramaphosa's office said he will be in the U.S. from Monday to Thursday of next week, and will meet with Trump on Wednesday at the White House.
51% : Since returning to office in January, Trump has issued orders to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government.
38% : Trump has also accused South Africa of taking "aggressive positions towards the U.S. and its allies" in its foreign policy and of being a supporter of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, and Iran.
31% : The meeting, announced Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the U.S. welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees this Monday, the start of what the Trump administration said is a larger relocation plan for minority Afrikaner farmers who Trump has claimed are being persecuted in their homeland because of their race.
19% : Trump has criticized South Africa's Black-led government on multiple fronts and issued an executive order Feb. 7 cutting all U.S. funding to the country as punishment for what he said were its anti-white policies at home and anti-American foreign policy.
18% : Trump said Monday -- the same day that the first batch of Afrikaner refugees arrived at Dulles International Airport in Virginia -- that there was "a genocide taking place" against white farmers that was being ignored by international media.
16% : Trump also required government contractors and other recipients of federal funds to certify, under threat of severe financial penalties, that they do not operate DEI programs that violate anti-discrimination laws.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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