The United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a travel ban on 43 countries.
According to a report on Saturday, Reuters cited an internal memo and officials familiar with the matter.
The memo categorizes the 43 countries into three groups: red, orange, and yellow.
Although the list has yet to be approved by the Trump administration, it includes several African nations, but excludes economic powerhouses like Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, and Egypt.
The red group consists of 11 countries—Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Cuba, Bhutan, Venezuela, North Korea, Yemen, and Somalia—whose nationals would be completely barred from entering the US.
The orange group comprises 10 countries whose visas would face sharp restrictions. These nations include Russia, Belarus, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Pakistan, Laos, Turkmenistan, Haiti, and Eritrea.
The yellow group includes 22 countries that have been given 60 days to address concerns raised by the US government. These nations are Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu, and Zimbabwe.
The New York Times was the first to report on the list of countries earmarked for the proposed visa ban.
However, a US official told Reuters that the list is subject to change and has yet to be officially approved by the administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The proposal is part of an immigration crackdown initiated by Trump at the start of his second term in January, aimed at tightening US border security and visa policies.
