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The first 49 white South Africans deemed victims of racial discrimination and granted refugee status under an offer by president Donald Trump were flying to the US on Monday in a move deepening frictions between the two nations, Reuters reports.

The US government has blocked mostly non-white refugee admissions from the rest of the world but is prioritising Afrikaners, the descendants of mostly Dutch settlers.