US expels South African ambassador

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Mar 14 that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country, in the latest Trump administration move targeting the African nation.

Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump. Rubio declared the South African diplomat “persona non grata.”

Neither Rubio, who posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of seven foreign ministers meeting in Canada, nor the State Department provided any immediate explanation for the decision.