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Canada has announced that it will be lifting its travel ban on South Africa and nine other African

Canada has announced that it will be lifting its travel ban on South Africa and nine other African countries following criticism. The ban was imposed last month to curb the transmission of the Omicron variant that was discovered by South Africa. On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the increase in Omicron cases was scary. Critics said the ban on travellers from 10 African countries made no sense given […]

today19 December 2021

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Biden pledges to roll back Trump’s Muslim travel ban on ‘day one

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has pledged to end President Donald Trump’s highly controversial travel ban affecting mainly Muslim-majority countries on day one of his presidency during an online summit yesterday. The Muslim community was the first to feel Trump’s “assault” with his “vile Muslim ban”, said Biden during his address at Emgage Action, the largest Muslim American PAC (political action committee). In a speech that blamed the […]

today22 July 2020

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Travel ban on high risk countries comes into effect on Wednesday

Government will on Wednesday gazette travel restrictions on all travellers from countries considered to be at high risk for the deadly coronavirus. The travel ban on citizens from eight countries including the United Kingdom and the United States was announced earlier this week by Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula at a media conference also attended by Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan and Home Affairs Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi. All foreign nationals from […]

today18 March 2020

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Saudi Arabia expands travel ban to 39 states including EU

Saudi Arabia temporarily suspended on Thursday the travel of its citizens and residents to 39 countries including 27 European Union states amid a jump in the number of coronavirus cases from 21 to 45 with reporting of 24 new cases, including 21 in Makkah. The new measures were taken as part of the Kingdom’s efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Saudi Press Agency reported citing statements of the […]

today12 March 2020

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US House panel advances bill to repeal Trump’s travel ban

The House Judiciary Committee voted in favour of advancing a bill that would withdraw Trump's controversial travel ban. The United States House Judiciary Committee voted on Wednesday to advance a bill that would repeal Donald Trump's travel ban that targets several Muslim majority countries, and would limit the president from imposing future restrictions based on religion. The House of Representatives panel voted along party lines in favour of advancing the […]

today13 February 2020

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‘A real human cost’: American Muslims decry travel ban

American-Muslims have decried a US Supreme Court ruling that upheld a controversial travel ban on five Muslim-majority countries, expressing anger and fear over what it will mean for them and their families. Dozens of people gathered outside the court building on Tuesday, holding banners and shouting slogans such as "No ban, no wall" to protest against the decision on a policy Donald Trump has fought for since his first week […]

today27 June 2018

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Trump’s travel ban faces Supreme Court reckoning

President Donald Trump’s administration goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to defend the legality of his travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries, one of the most contentious actions of his presidency. Trump’s travel ban - the third version of a policy he first sought to implement a week after taking office in January 2017 - blocks entry into the United States of most people from Iran, […]

today25 April 2018

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Federal judge partially lifts Trump’s latest refugee restrictions

A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s newest restrictions on refugee admissions on Saturday, the latest legal defeat for his efforts to curtail immigration and travel to the United States. The decision by U.S. District Judge James Robart is the first judicial curb on rules the Trump administration put into place in late October that have contributed significantly to a precipitous drop in the number of […]

today24 December 2017

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US Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ to take full effect

The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday to allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect. The court, with two of the nine justices dissenting, granted the US administration's request to lift two injunctions imposed by lower courts that had partially blocked the ban. The open-ended ban, announced in September, targets people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as […]

today5 December 2017

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