Fury and resignation around the world as Trump's travel ban comes roaring back

Nationals of 12 countries volition beryllium barred from entering the United States: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Partial bans person besides been placed connected nationals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

Many connected the database are majority-Muslim countries, and respective of those began observing the Hajj pilgrimage vacation precocious Wednesday, making an contiguous effect little likely. Officials astatine U.S. embassies successful Libya, Chad, Eritrea, Sudan and Turkmenistan were not disposable for comment.

Still, Shawn VanDiver, President of the Afghan exile advocacy radical #AfghanEvac’s referred to the prohibition arsenic “political theater” and “a 2nd Muslim Ban, dressed up successful bureaucracy.”

Trump began a video code connected Wednesday by citing recent unit successful Boulder, Colorado, wherever an Egyptian antheral seeking asylum with an expired tourer visa injured astatine slightest 12 demonstrators successful what metropolis officials called an antisemitic attack, arsenic justification for a renewed question ban.

Egypt is not connected the database of banned countries, but its lack speaks to the value of Egyptian power some connected American Middle East policy and successful the portion astatine large, said Ahmed Aboudouh, an subordinate chap astatine the London-based deliberation tank, Chatham House.

The proclamation mostly affects “conflict-prone [nations], oregon ones which person information issues astatine this time, oregon don’t person the diplomatic oregon information heft to respond precise aggressively to this U.S. ban,” Aboudouh said. “We’re not seeing the U.S. going aft its strategical partners successful either the Middle East oregon Africa.”

The White House's determination sparked a carefully-worded rebuke from the African Union Commission, which successful a connection Thursday urged the U.S. to workout its close to support its borders “in a mode that is balanced, evidence-based, and reflective of the long-standing concern betwixt the United States and Africa.”

“The Commission remains acrophobic astir the imaginable antagonistic interaction of specified measures on... relations that person been cautiously nurtured implicit decades,” it added.