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President Donald Trump banned travel to the United States for citizens of seven African countries and restricted access for another three countries from 9 June.
In a separate list, he included an additional 24 African countries that may be subject to travel restrictions if they didn’t provide ‘remediation plans’ for concerns identified by the US government that include security vetting and people overstaying their US visas, according to the New York Times.
The 34 countries are:
Banned: Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
Restricted travel: Burundi, Sierra Leone and Togo. People from these countries cannot go to the US permanently or get tourist or student visas.
May be restricted: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In a separate list, he included an additional 24 African countries that may be subject to travel restrictions if they didn’t provide ‘remediation plans’ for concerns identified by the US government that include security vetting and people overstaying their US visas, according to the New York Times.
The 34 countries are:
Banned: Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan.
Restricted travel: Burundi, Sierra Leone and Togo. People from these countries cannot go to the US permanently or get tourist or student visas.
May be restricted: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.