U.S ANNOUNCES VISA CURBS FOR SOME FOREIGN NATIONALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (PHOTO).
U.S announces visa curbs for some foreign nationals in South Africa Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the U.S. government was announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting some foreign nationals in South Africa. The policy targets "foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, the enactment or implementation of laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa," Rubio said in a statement. "The South African government has not adequately addressed the previously laid out concerns," Rubio said, Reuters reported. Relations between Washington and Pretoria have soured since the start of Donald Trump's second term, with the U.S. president criticizing the country for its policies aimed at addressing racial inequality.
Today monday in Kenya,dozens of Kenyan citizens took to the street against homosexuality and a lawmaker said U.S President Barack Obama should not push a pro-gay agenda when he visits the country later this month of July.Obama has hailed last month's U.S Supreme Court decision to allow same sex marriage but few share his view in Kenya or other African countries,where socially and religiously conservative views generally prevails.Lawmaker Irungu Kangata told the demonstrators today outside the parliament that ''We are telling Mr Obama when he comes to Kenya this month as he tries to bring the abortion agenda,the gay agenda,we shall tell him to shut up and go home''.Many of the Nairobi demonstrators wore T-Shirts with the slopans ''Protect the family match and stand within the family''.Deputy President William Ruto told a church congregation in May that Kenya had ''No room for gays''.The comment was made the same day that U.S secretary of state John Kerry arrived in Nairobi for talks.
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