Chad, Somalia and Libya affected by US travel ban
Publish date: 11 December 2017
Issue Number: 755
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Labour
The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries – three of them in Africa – can go into full effect, pending legal challenges. BBC News reports that the decision is a boost for Trump's policy against travellers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The ruling covers the third version of the directive that the President has issued since taking office. Federal appeals courts in San Francisco, California, and Richmond, Virginia, were due to hear arguments last week on whether the latest iteration of the policy is lawful.
