A UN representative arrives in Nigeria, highlighting the closure of 150 clinics due to funding shortages impacting healthcare services.
Malawi and Zambia have become the first countries whose citizens must pay up to $15,000 in visa bonds to visit the US, under a new State Department policy targeting nations with high visa overstay rates. The Trump administration defends the move as a “common-sense” immigration enforcement measure, citing overstay rates of 11.1% by Zambians and 14.3% by Malawians. However, critics have slammed the move as discriminatory and punitive, particularly considering the relatively small number of travelers from these nations. While Brazil and Colombia had lower overstay rates (1.52% and 4.62%, respectively), their actual numbers dwarf those of Malawi and Zambia—20,811 and 40,884 overstays versus Malawi’s 237 and Zambia’s 388.
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