{"id":116615,"date":"2025-06-16T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/tanzania-uganda-among-36-other-countries-in-trumps-travel-ban-watchlist\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:03:45","slug":"tanzania-uganda-among-36-other-countries-in-trumps-travel-ban-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/tanzania-uganda-among-36-other-countries-in-trumps-travel-ban-watchlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania, Uganda among 36 other countries in Trump\u2019s travel ban watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tanzania and Uganda are among thirty-six other countries added to the United States travel ban watchlist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the reasons cited include questionable security and lack of a cooperative government.<\/p>\n<p>Other African countries in the list include Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Djibouti, Mauritania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The entry of people from seven other countries \u2013 Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela \u2013 has also been partially restricted.<\/p>\n<p>During his first in office, Trump announced a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations, a policy that went through several iterations before it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries, the cable said, were not cooperative in facilitating the removal of its nationals from the United States who were ordered to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries were overstaying the U.S. visas their citizens were being granted.<\/p>\n<p>Other reasons for concern were the nationals of the country were involved in acts of terrorism in the United States, or antisemitic and anti-American activity.<\/p>\n<p>The cable noted that not all of these concerns pertained to every country listed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are constantly reevaluating policies to ensure the safety of Americans and that foreign nationals follow our laws,\u201d a senior State Department official said, declining to comment on specific internal deliberations and communications.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania and Uganda are among thirty-six other countries added to the United States travel ban watchlist. Among the reasons cited include questionable security and lack of a cooperative government. Other African countries in the list include Angola, Ethiopia, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Djibouti, Mauritania and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The entry of people from seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}