The United States is reducing the number of visa-processing embassies and consulates in Africa from 50 to 20. For people from 34 African states, this means traveling to another country to obtain a US visa.

Professor Loren Landau (University of Oxford / Wits University) notes that six-to-eight-month waits for visa appointments have already effectively closed off travel to the US. He also warns that the move may be intended to deny access to displaced people seeking to leave the continent by traveling across the Atlantic or Mediterranean.

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[Photo & Article Credit: African Journalism / The Continent]