CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority Black country.

South African officials have cast the move as a politically motivated attempt to discredit the country. The Trump administration has criticized the South African government for having a close relationship with Iran and for its stance against Israel.

While President Donald Trump has effectively halted all other U.S. refugee programs, he is bringing white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees. Pauline Bax, African program deputy director for the International Crisis Group,