Trump drops Chad, keeps 6 other countries on travel ban list

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President Trump excused Chad from a list of countries whose citizens are temporarily banned from getting visas to visit the U.S., but kept six other nations on his controversial travel ban.

Chad, a poor African country south of Libya, is about half Muslim and half Christian, according to the CIA World Factbook. It was not included in an initial seven-nation travel ban that Trump announced in January 2017.

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