Sudan summons US charge d'affaires to protest Trump ban

Sudan today summoned US charge d'affaires Steven Koutsis to protest President Donald Trump's visa ban which has already prevented some of its citizens from flying to the United States.

The foreign ministry "expressed its displeasure" with Trump's order to bar Sudanese and citizens from six other Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for three months.

Koutsis is the most senior diplomat at the American embassy in Khartoum.

Trump signed an executive order on Friday temporarily prohibiting entry to the US to citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and suspending the arrival of refugees.

Fatimah Abu Al-Qassem Al-Qash and businessman Amer Hamed al-Manufi were among the first Sudanese to be hit by the ban.

"We went through passport control at Khartoum airport and flew to Doha. But when we arrived there (yesterday) we were detained with some Iranians and Iraqis," Fatimah told

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