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Eritrea blasts US visa ban, Nigeria creates committee to address issues

A Nigerian flag is seen outside Nigeria Trade Office after Nigerian request to Taiwan to relocate its representative office in the African country, in Taipei, Taiwan January 12, 2017.

Eritrea denounced a US ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable” on Saturday, while Nigeria’s government said it had created a committee to address the issues that prompted US President Donald Trump to add the country to the ban.

Nigeria and Eritrea were among six countries, four of them in Africa, added to an expanded version of the US visa ban announced on Friday in a presidential proclamation.

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