US EditionTrump’s expanded travel ban hits Africa the hardest but reactions are muted
The Trump administration's ban covers 39 countries, with 20 in Africa, citing security and visa-overstay concerns, effective Jan. 1, 2026, the White House said.
- President Donald Trump moved 20 countries onto a U.S. travel-restrictions list, adding five on Tuesday including Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Tonga.
- The administration tied the expanded limits to security, documentation and visa-overstay concerns, reviving and broadening a travel-restrictions list first revived in June.
- Twelve of the 15 countries with partial restrictions are in Africa, including Angola, Benin, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- The African Union warned the measures could hurt people-to-people ties, educational exchanges, and diplomatic relations, while reactions were muted on Wednesday as Sierra Leone sought engagement with Washington.
- Analysts warned the measures risk making relations incoherent and could benefit rival powers like Russia and China, while ordinary citizens in affected countries voiced concern about penalties on binational families and businesspeople.
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Security as a pretext for exclusion?
The latest expansion of the US travel ban has been justified using the now familiar language of security risks and weak vetting systems. Seven more countries have been placed on a no-entry list. On paper this rationale appears technocratic and neutral. In practice, however, the pattern of the ban suggests that ethnic preferences and biases are becoming inseparable from security assessment. After the most recent additions, the United States has e…
There are hardly any illegal migrants entering the US via the southern border, the expulsions are at record levels, and on Tuesday Trump also restricted legal entry for another twenty countries. However, in the polls, support for this policy declines.
Trump Blocks Entry From Nearly Three Dozen Problem Nations
The president slammed the door yesterday on almost three dozen Third World countries whose immigrants are a public menace and terror threat. ... The post Trump Blocks Entry From Nearly Three Dozen Problem Nations appeared first on The New American.
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