UPDATE: Trump's latest travel ban includes Africa's most populated country

Source:  Worldometers

New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa’s Biggest Economy, Nigeria.  (The New York Times, 2/2/2020)

With the new expansion, the ban will affect nearly a quarter of the 1.2 billion people on the African continent, according to W. Gyude Moore, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, a research group, potentially taking a heavy toll on African economies — and on America’s image in the region. 

“Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and British firms, backed by their governments, are staking positions on a continent that will define the global economy’s future,” he said, adding, “One hopes that the United States would follow suit and fully engage with the continent — but that hope fades.” 

Source:  Maps of World (highlights added)

Original 2/1/2020 post, "Where in the world are Eritrea, Kyrgyszstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania?", starts here.

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Trump expands controversial travel ban restrictions to six new countries.  (USA Today, 1/31/2020)

Department of Homeland Security officials said the administration will suspend issuing overseas visas for nationals of Eritrea [36.5% Muslim], Kyrgyzstan [86.3%], Myanmar [3.8%] and Nigeria [50.4%]. The agency said it would also place additional restrictions on Sudanese [71.3%] and Tanzanian [30.2%] nationals.