President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era — a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country’s white minority.

The U.N. refugee agency has appealed to donors to bring forward planned payments after the Trump administration put hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of donations on hold as part of its foreign aid freeze,

About half of the organization’s staff members are former legal refugees fleeing persecution, war or violence.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order sanctioning South Africa over its treatment of the white Afrikaner minority while directing the State Department to clear the way for refugees to settle in the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt foreign aid to South Africa and to promote the resettlement of discriminated white Afrikaners in the U.S. The president condemned the law that allows for the confiscation of land from white farmers in South Africa.

US President Donald Trump has now followed up his baseless claims about land confiscation in South Africa, with yet another controversial offer.