Trump Places Travel Bans or Travel Restrictions on 36 African and Afro-Caribbean Countries.

Trump Places Travel Bans or Travel Restrictions on 36 African and Afro-Caribbean countries. 

IS YOUR COUNTRY AMONG THEM?

Trump has banned visas from these African and Afro-Caribbean countries: Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan. 

The other countries with visa bans are: Afghanistan, Burma, Iran, and Yemen. 

These African and Afro-Caribbean countries are listed as possibly subject to travel bans: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 

The other countries with possible visa bans are: Bhutan, Cambodia, Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. 

In fact, of the 48 nations facing actual or possible travel bans, 36 nations are in Africa or the Caribbean. 

For a summary of the travel bans, what they mean for us, and Trump’s rationale, see https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html.

For analysis of the racism behind behind the bans, see: https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/.