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The State De­part­ment says South Africa’s am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed States, who was de­clared “per­sona non gra­ta” last week, has un­til Fri­day to leave the coun­try.

Af­ter Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio de­ter­mined that Am­bas­sador Ebrahim Ra­sool was no longer wel­come in the U.S. and post­ed his de­ci­sion Fri­day on so­cial me­dia, South African em­bassy staff were sum­moned to the State De­part­ment and giv­en a for­mal diplo­mat­ic note ex­plain­ing the de­ci­sion, de­part­ment spokesper­son Tam­my Bruce said.

She said Ra­sool’s diplo­mat­ic priv­i­leges and im­mu­ni­ties ex­pired Mon­day and that he would be re­quired to leave the Unit­ed States by Fri­day.