Mali, Burkina say restricting entry for US nationals in reciprocal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In his December 17 announcement, Trump also imposed partial travel restrictions on citizens of other African countries including the most populous, Nigeria, as well as Ivory Coast and Senegal, which qualified for the football World Cup to be played next year in the United States as well as Canada and Mexico.
49% : ABIDJAN: Mali and Burkina Faso have announced travel restrictions on American nationals in a tit-for-tat move after the US included both African countries on a no-entry list.
45% : Niger has not officially announced any counter-measures to the US travel ban, but the country's news agency, citing a diplomatic source, said last week that such measures had been decided.
44% : In statements issued separately by both countries' foreign ministries and seen Wednesday by AFP, they said they were imposing "equivalent measures" on US citizens, after President Donald Trump expanded a travel ban to nearly 40 countries this month, based solely on nationality.

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