President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Washington's ally Israel.

FILE - A man sits outside a closed clinic in Soweto, South Africa, Jan. 30, 2025. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 7, 2025, that will freeze aid to South Africa because of its effort to address wrongs of its racist apartheid era.

The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.