Chad’s President, Mahamat Idriss Deby announced that his country is suspending the issuance of visa to US citizens in response to the Trump administration’s decision to ban Chadians from visiting the US.
Deby disclosed this on Thursday, a day after Donald Trump signed the proclamation banning Chad nationals and citizens from six other African countries from entering the US.
“Chad has no planes to offer, no billions of dollars to give but Chad has its dignity and pride,” Deby said, referring to the $400 million luxury plane offered to his administration as a gift by the ruling family of Qatar.
President Donald Trump resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term when he announced the visa ban on 12 countries including Chad, accusing them of having “deficient” screening and vetting, and historically refusing to take back their own citizens who overstay in the United States.
The new ban targets Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
In the Republic of Congo, government spokesperson Thierry Moungalla said he believes his country was among those affected because of a “misunderstanding” over an armed attack in the U.S. with the perpetrators “mistaken” to be from the Republic of Congo.
Obviously, Congo is not a terrorist country, is not home to any terrorist, is not known to have a terrorist vocation.
“So we think that this is a misunderstanding and I believe that in the coming hours, the competent diplomatic services of the government will contact the American authorities here,” Moungalla said.
