The US has permanently stopped funding thousands of health-care programs in Africa, with notifications to affected organizations arriving without warning and causing a cascade of chaos.Letters from The United States Agency for International Development arrived overnight on Wednesday for many and were also sent to groups funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief,

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.