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Broly

Age: 48 Affiliation: Freeza Force (Defunct) Date of Birth: April 16 Place of Birth: Birthing Facility 4, Vegetopolis, Planet Vegeta Species: Saiyans (Sub-species: Mutant; Type: Legendary Super Saiyan)

Universe Inspiration: Dragon Ball Super: Broly film inspired, with references to original Dragon Ball Z: Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan

Appearance Broly is a tall Saiyan, in his base form being somewhere in the mid 6 foot range height-wise, with a very muscular build, and deeply tanned skin, that’s covered in scars from his harsh upbringing. As is typical for his species, Broly has wild, black, hair that doesn’t change in shape, but simply continues to grow and maintain its shape until a certain point. At one point Broly had a tail, also as was standard of a saiyan, but was removed by his father as a precaution to avoid the use of his Oozaru form which, even as a baby, was over twice as strong as Paragus.

Generally Broly wears the same clothing that he was given as a baby, when sent to planet Vampa, though in later years he would usually eschew the armor, as even its presence made Broly feel that his movement was impeded somewhat, when he was recruited into the Freeza Force. The only occasion in which he was known to wear his Freeza Force armor was when it was expected, during his fight with Vegeta and Goku. Consistently, though, Broly is known to wear a green pelt around his waist that was made from the skinned ear of an animal who had once been his friend that he called Ba.

As he enters an enraged state Broly is known to grow both taller and larger, increasing in size by roughly a foot, and growing even larger. When in such an emotional condition his pupils also shift from their dark irises to having yellow ones, a change which makes some hypothesize that it has more to do with a partial Oozaru transformation than something inherent to some type of technique.

When in the Super Saiyan base state, Broly experiences the typical changes physically, his muscles becoming more defined, and sometimes even slightly larger, with his eyes changing color to blue, and spiky gold hair that takes on a more stiff appearance. However, this is superseded when activating his Type-C transformation, retaining the yellow pupils from his enraged condition, having larger muscles and growing even further larger than his enraged state, while his hair takes on a more greenish color.

Upon transcending to his Legendary Super Saiyan state, Broly’s hair becomes more notably green, and he grows even further in size, standing over 9 feet tall. As well, he becomes his most fury-driven at this time, with his pupils no longer being visible, and being short of a frothing animal.

Personality Broly is one of the rare saiyan speciment who display a uniquely gentle nature in regard to other living creatures. Primarily, even when hunting, he would generally only attack animals that were known to be aggressive towards his father and he. This is generally consistent in his interactions with others, as he generally will not immediately jump to violence, and in fact only does this when incited to do so. One might say that he has even taken to a passive nature thanks to his largely isolationist upbringing, as Paragus had held no illusions regarding their eventual return to society, and it speaks to a possible conclusion that saiyans may well be very peaceful by nature, when left to their own devices, and lack interaction with many other creatures.

Despite this, Broly is still victim to certain qualities that are consistent among saiyans, such as a voracious appetite for food, which is expressed through eating massive helpings of food, and often mowing through small snacks when offered to him. This results in Broly being readily inquisitive towards things that appear food-like, or even anything vaguely edible as the animals he’s accustomed to eating are a stretch to be referred to as “food”. Additionally, Broly, when losing himself in the throes of a violent episode, will begin to crave and enjoy the violence of battle, eventually becoming psychotic enough to attack individuals who he may not have actually been fighting, such as when he attacked Freeza for roughly an hour, after being redirected towards him by Goku and Vegeta, and then after attacking Whis when he determined that his target no longer had any fight left to give. Notably, this seems to mean that Broly, even enraged, is lucid enough to stop attacking someone who doesn’t have anything left, boring him and causing the saiyan to move on.

As he grew up in an extremely isolated world, with only one other sapient being to have a relationship with, Broly is extremely shy and naive. In fact, he will generally only speak to those he knows well, such as his father, and later Cheelai and Lemo. Through this, Broly has poor manners, and little use for common social graces, which makes him appear more savage and boorish to others than he actually is.

Thanks to the fact that he only grew up with his father, who had something resembling affection for his son, Broly has become conditioned to believe that Paragus is the most important person in his life. This gives him a loyalty to his father that, while being objectively aware that his father brought him up in a vicious manner, forcing the boy to fight dangerous wild animals to enhance his Battle Power, he would still anger quickly when others spoke poorly of the saiyan. In actuality, Broly’s relationship with Paragus is largely more similar to that of a master and a weapon, as Paragus largely did things that would either enable him to emotionally manipulate Broly, bully him into submission, or actively physically control him. This leaves Broly with a fearful, even traumatic, response to certain stimuli, such as electricity and electrical currents, as well as devices which resemble a remote control, and any sort of neck jewelry, or even most types of apparel that would require it be wrapped around his neck.

Despite these facts, Broly invests significant stock into those interpersonal relationships that he does have, especially the one he held with Paragus, to at least a similar regard that Goku held his friendship with Krillin. This is evidenced by the fact that through grief and fury, at seeing the corpse of his father freshly killed, supposedly by combat shrapnel, an already enraged Broly was able to be pushed to the breaking point that would allow him to achieve the Super Saiyan transformation.

Biography Summarized in the Dragon Ball Super: Broly film

Skills, Abilities, and Powers -Superhuman Physical State: Saiyans originated and evolved on a planet with ten times the mass of planet Earth, and accordingly have a greater physical condition when under the same gravitational conditions. Additionally, saiyans are a species who inherently are more powerful than humans with little training at all levels of development. Saiyan infants who are considered unimpressive (Battle Power Ratings/BPR of less than 100 generally) are generally sent to planets like Earth with the expectation of wiping out sapient species from its surface within two decades. For context, an adult human’s BPR on average would be somewhere between a 5 to a 10. Upon birth and analysis Broly was able to measure in the ballpark of 10,000 BPR (Equivalent roughly to Bardock in the TV special, and stronger than Goku’s powered up state when fighting Nappa and Vegeta) at the higher end, when his emotions were elevated, and resting at 920 when calm, both being considered extremely impressive ratings for a newborn. Accordingly, Broly’s inflated Battle Power indicated his ability to kill monsters that made the likes of Peregus (his own father and a lower-class warrior specimen) flee and seek refuge from. Growing into adulthood, Broly would become extremely physically powerful, despite only having training in the form of some very fundamental fighting from his father as a small child, and otherwise relying on the dangerous creatures of planet Vampa. This, combined with the rare genetic mutation that renders Broly a Legendary Super Saiyan, he has become easily one of the most powerful individuals in the multiverse in terms of simple physical might. By comparison, he was said to be stronger than Beerus, a destruction god who is able to effortlessly destroy planets through a single touch, and accidentally destroy the universe that he occupies when fighting. Much like other characters in Dragon Ball, the specifics of Broly’s physical feats, or the feats of others when applied to scale with him, as the story is an Eastern Epic with Sci-Fi elements blended in. It is to be accepted, though, that Broly is among the most powerful beings in existence, and that most feats of physicality should be considered manageable by him, excepting his noted weaknesses and limitations. Most factors that can limit his ability to perform are usually magical in nature, or otherwise come from a higher plateau of power. If one considers a spread of prowess between the three main fight stats (Power, Speed, and Durability) with 15 points to budget, Broly factors as-follows: Power: 6 Speed: 4 Durability: 5 But relative to other DB characters, being stronger than Beerus would likely earn him more points, making an array like this more reasonable: Power: 8 Speed: 6 Durability: 7 This is based on the fact that it required a fusion to ultimately defeat Broly, with the fusion in question being greater than the sum of his parts (Vegeta and Goku both in SSB). --Zenkai (Also known as Saiyan Power): Like other Saiyans, Broly is able to become stronger, receiving a boost to his Battle Power and physical state after recovering from a defeat, or enduring hardship in the heat of battle. Many of the currently living saiyans have used this ability to great effect to become some of the most powerful mortals in existence. ---Combat Zenkai: Uniquely to Broly, likely due to his being a Legendary Super Saiyan, he is able to experience the growth that one would expect of a saiyan DURING battle, rather than while recovering, essentially allowing him to grow more powerful as he’s pressured in battle, making him an exceptionally dangerous opponent.

-Superhuman Senses: like all saiyans, Broly’s olfactory is more acute than a normal human’s. Additionally, he’s able to react and perceive things in a much faster time too, keeping up with his speed, and those of a similar degree of ability in this regard. Broly, however, cannot seem able to react to those faster than him by a degree that matters (such as Gogeta during SSB), but still seems to be able to track, as he attempted to respond to attacks from this opponent WHILE being struck.

-Fighting Ability: Broly has had very minimal training in regards to combat, as he was easily able to surpass his father as a child, and thus only has the most fundamental technique from that brief time in which he COULD train with Broly and have it matter at all. Instead, Broly largely experienced training through fighting and killing the dangerous monsters who inhabited Vampa. However, when it came to fighting other warriors, it became evident when Broly fought others of a similar raw power to himself (Vegeta and Goku) that he had no practical skills in martial arts. Notable, though, is that this lack of experience allowed him to develop and learn how to fight other humanoids extremely quickly, understanding what worked and what didn’t, modifying his style accordingly. In terms of style, Broly is defined by a distinct lack of style, being a true brawler, he moves and attacks in a method that makes sense for the purposes of someone with little combat experience. Broly’s attacks are direct and fast, with little flourish or fluidity, simply compensating for his lack of finesse with raw speed and power. Haymakers, lariats, and hard straights tend to represent most of his attacks.

-Combat Genius: Much like Son Goku and Vegeta, Broly is considered a genius when it comes to combat. Though whereas the likes of Goku is able to improvise battle strategies and tactics tailored to the situation, Broly is able to fight purely on instinct, guiding without thought on a surface level. Though, it is worth noting that he does actively learn and adapt in combat, which is still a degree of thought too far to be necessary to attain Ultra Instinct.

-Adaptive Combatant: Broly is able to deal with opponents who are superior to him in some regard or another, so long as he isn’t outclassed by them entirely. This was clearly the case when after a few moments of fighting with Vegeta, he became reliably able to outfight his opponent, despite remaining in base form as opposed to the other’s transformed state, only to then have trouble with Goku’s fighting style, due to not yet having adapted. This is notably the case, as similar tactics seem to fail to work against Broly repeatedly.

-Technique Mimicry: Like other saiyans, but notably like his mentor and rival Goku, Broly is possessed of the coveted ability to mimic the techniques of those he sees, particularly Chi-based ones, such as when he was able to turn Goku’s own God Bind back upon its user. Broly, while able to copy the techniques of those that he sees, generally tends to only use those that he finds useful, particularly those that don’t require him to stand still and charge.

-Chi Manipulation and Generation: Like all other saiyans, Broly has the ability to manipulate his own life aura, known commonly in Earth philosophic and martial arts systems as Chi, Qi, or Ki, and manifest it into physical phenomena. Broly is able to most notably use this energy to propel himself through the air in flight, or focusing it into a raw blast of plasma, which he can fire from his hands or mouth. While other characters have expressed a range of abilities when using their chi, Broly has had very minimal training with this life energy, due to his father’s rather unimpressive abilities, to be assumed, and not fighting enemies who frequently make use of these abilities. While Broly doesn’t initially have techniques that he uses with his chi in a specific sense, or the ability to detect the life-force of others, he is extremely powerful, with a BPR that can’t be measured by the most advanced Scouter technology. An individual’s chi is impacted by a number of factors, including their physical state, spiritual state, focus, discipline, and emotions. Notably, Broly as an infant was able to become more than ten times more powerful when having typical baby-type anger.

-Oozaru’s Wrath: Due to his uninhibited rage, Broly is able to access his power increase from being an Oozaru (Saiyans generally accepted this to be a x10 multiplier to his BPR, as well as increase his physical size somewhat and strength as if he had transformed into a great ape, but without the loss of agility that comes with being an actual giant ape.

-Heat Resistance: Broly is able to resist heat to the point that he and Goku were able to do combat in a pit of lava, and not seem to be injured by the molten rock around them. This is likely a saiyan adaptation, as Broly wasn’t frequently making use of his chi in a subtle fashion yet.

Chi-Based Abilities and Techniques -Flight -Ki Blasts -Eraser Cannon (A focused orb of chi that Broly has enhanced the explosive power of, creating a more powerful and debilitating attack. This is the closest thing to Broly’s signature technique, though it’s not very distinct from his baseline blasts. Notably Broly can also fire this attack from his chest.) -Omega Blaster (Through creating a larger orb with his Eraser Cannon, Broly is able to power up the destructive power and size of his chi orbs by funneling energy into it after launch.) -Blaster Meteor (After forming an Energy Shield around himself, Broly fires a grouping of homing energy blasts from either side of himself, forming a powerful and destructive blast.) -Gigantic Breath (Essentially Eraser Cannon firing from his mouth, but in more of a stream-like form.) -Saiyan Blaster (Explosion Wave using his Wrath State) --Omega Blaster (A Super Explosive Wave effected by Broly’s Super Saiyan C-Type Form.) -Gigantic Full Blast -Planet Crusher (After forming a large ball of energy above his head, Broly will then throw a bomb of his chi at the opponent, inflicting massive damage. This is Broly’s individually strongest chi blast.) -Gigantic Full Blast (Essentially a wave of energy fired from in front of Broly.) --Gigantic Omegastorm (A charged green ball of chi forms in front of Broly, before being released as a green wave of energy.) --Gigantic Cluster (Broly’s Full Blast, but rather than firing it in a single wave it takes the form of many bullets that follow an opponent’s movements.) --Gigantic Catastrophe (Broly will fire an energy blast from his mouth, but also several, compact, bullets from his hand, before he physically charges, and fires another wave at the foe.) -Powered Shell (Essentially a tangible shield formed from Broly’s dense chi, he is able to use it to protect himself from attacks, though this technique is notable for being not only visible, but can actually impede a target from reaching him by several inches.) -Super Saiyan (As a Saiyan with sufficient Z-Cells, Broly is able to achieve the Super Saiyan state, though he initially requires a state of heightened emotion to spark the transformation. While a Super Saiyan, Broly’s BPR is multiplied by 50x, though generally it’s accepted to be a significant increase in Broly’s already huge power level. Due to the nature of the transformation, Broly’s life energy becomes extremely volatile, much like his emotional state, essentially being able to close the difference between Broly’s base form, and Goku’s Super Saiyan God form.) --Super Saiyan C-Type (Due to Broly’s mutation as a Legendary Super Saiyan he is able to use a far more efficient mode of Super Saiyan, taking it along a distinct path of evolution as opposed to non-Legendary Super Saiyans. While other types of Super Saiyans tend to progress along a series of grades that modulate to an eventual efficiency that becomes Super Saiyan 2 (Or Super Saiyan Grade V), and then from then on becomes inefficient again thought Grade VI (Super Saiyan 3) before eventually reaching a state of perfect efficiency and power with Super Saiyan 4 (Grade VII), C-Type has a similar type of efficiency built into it already, not taxing Broly’s body, mind, or chi, while utilizing this newfound efficiency to push his abilities as a Super Saiyan even further. This version of Super Saiyan is also notable for having green or yellow hair, rather than the typical gold, and that while in it Broly’s mental state still remains volatile, craving combat. At present, Broly has only shown the ability to use this version of Super Saiyan while also using his Oozaru’s Wrath. ---Super Saiyan Berserker Mode (Legendary Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan B-Mode)(Essentially the full-power version of Super Saiyan C-Type, Broly pushes his power to its maximum level, becoming even larger and more powerful, though still without losing his speed and agility. At this point he’s become roughly 9 feet tall, and begun fighting entirely on instinct. As described by others, this form of Super Saiyan can only grow in power, without evident weakening so long as the user’s body can withstand the strain of the power it’s holding, though eventually it can begin to destroy itself in the process, severely inhibiting their speed and strength in the process, until the force of their chi eventually becomes so great that it causes the Berserking Saiyan to explode. In this form, Broly’s chi can become so intense that upon transformation it can be felt from a different quadrant of the galaxy altogether by those who are sensitive to chi. If his chi continues to grow without regard for his body’s limitations it is assumable that even those who aren’t sensitive to life energy might become able to detect his power throughout the entire universe. Berserker Mode is notably referred to as such because of the personality change it causes in users who don’t have perfect chi control, much like Super Saiyan Blue, in which Broly often becomes drastically more violent. In the case of him using this form most often he lacks the capacity to NOT kill and destroy everyone around him.

Martial Abilities and Techniques -Haymaker (Many of Broly’s punches are simply wide, strong, swings that make use of his considerable size and strength. While these attacks are comparatively slow, they are noteworthy for being extremely dangerous to be struck with, necessitating caution when approaching Broly in combat.) -Lariat (Essentially charging attacks in which Broly armbars his foe, or grips them, often slamming them into hard surfaces, or blowing through them with the intent to break bones.) -Wrathful Charge (Broly will charge in to strike his opponent with an Eraser Cannon at Point-Blank Range, usually in the target’s chest.) -Eraser Blow (Essentially Wrathful Charge, though often aimed more center-mass of his target, with the explosion set to knock foes flying.)

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New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa’s Biggest Economy, Nigeria

The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage. Miriam Nwegbe was in Nigeria. Her husband was in Baltimore, and until she could join him, everything was on hold: finding a home together, trying for their first baby, becoming an American family.

Then, on Friday, their lives were thrown into disarray by the expansion of President Trump’s ban on immigration to include six new countries, including four in Africa. Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, was one of them.

“America has killed me,” Ms. Nwegbe’s husband, Ikenna, an optometrist, texted her when he heard. “We are finished.”

A year after the Trump administration announced that a major pillar of its new strategy for Africa was to counter the growing influence of China and Russia by expanding economic ties to the continent, it slammed the door shut on Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy.

The travel restrictions also apply to three other African countries — Sudan, Tanzania, and Eritrea — as well as to Myanmar, which is accused of genocide against its Muslim population, and Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet state.

The ban will prevent thousands of people from being able to move to the United States.

The initial ban, which was put into effect in 2017, restricted travel from some Muslim-majority countries as part of Mr. Trump’s plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” It has already affected more than 135 million people — many of them Christians — from seven countries.

With the new expansion, the ban will affect nearly a quarter of the 1.2 billion people on the African continent, according to W. Gyude Moore, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, a research group, potentially taking a heavy toll on African economies — and on America’s image in the region.

“Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and British firms, backed by their governments, are staking positions on a continent that will define the global economy’s future,” he said, adding, “One hopes that the United States would follow suit and fully engage with the continent — but that hope fades.”

The rationale for the new restrictions varies depending on country, but the White House announcement said that most of the six countries added to the list did not comply with identity-verification and information-sharing rules.

And Nigeria, it said, posed a risk of harboring terrorists who may seek to enter the United States. The country has been hit brutally by the Islamist group Boko Haram, though the extremists have shown little sign that they have the capability to export their fight overseas.

Critics, many of whom also denounced the initial ban, saw something far more venal at play.

“Trump’s travel bans have never been rooted in national security — they’re about discriminating against people of color,” Kamala Harris, the former Democratic presidential candidate, declared on Sunday. “They are, without a doubt, rooted in anti-immigrant, white supremacist ideologies.”

Two Democrats still in the race also weighed in. Elizabeth Warren described the measure as a “racist, xenophobic Muslim ban.” Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called it “a disgrace.”

And Nancy Pelosi, the house speaker, said Democratic lawmakers would push ahead with a measure to forbid religious discrimination in immigration policy.

Beyond those people who may now never make it across American borders, the new ban could also affect millions who have no plans to travel to United States themselves but may have benefited from the billions of dollars in remittances visa holders send home each year.

The United States may also emerge a loser, studies suggest. Nigerians are among the most successful and highly educated immigrants to America. (Mr. Trump, demanding to know why immigration policies did not favor people from countries like Norway, once disparaged those from Africa and Haiti, and said Nigerians would never go back to their “huts” if they were allowed in.)

Hadiza Aliyu lives in Borno, the Nigerian state at the epicenter of the Boko Haram crisis that has left tens of thousands dead. But she thought she had found a way out.

Ms. Aliyu was preparing to apply to move to the United States, where she once studied and where her two brothers live.

She was furious when she heard about the extended ban.

“Trump has been looking for a way to get at us Africans for a very long time, and finally got us,” Ms. Aliyu said. “To hell with Republicans and their supremacist ideas.”

Mika Moses moved to Minnesota from Nigeria nine years ago to join his mother and siblings, who were allowed entry after the family was attacked in religious riots in their northern city of Kaduna in 1991. His wife, Juliet, and their daughter were planning to join him, but are stuck in Kaduna, where Ms. Moses sells soda in a small store.

She said they were heartbroken by the news that the move would now be impossible.

“I have been struggling to raise our daughter alone,” she said. “Why would Trump do this to us, after we have waited for nine years?”

Nigerians already living in the United States have been calling lawyers to try to figure out whether they will have to leave. Marilyn Eshikena, a biomedical research ethicist, has lived in the United States for the past seven years, but her visa expires this year. Her employer sponsored her application for a green card.

“If it turns out that everything needs to stop, they will feel cheated, because they spent a lot of money on this process,” Ms. Eshikena said. “I will also feel cheated, because all the time that I spent working here will ultimately be for nothing. I can’t even imagine what packing up and leaving will mean for me.”

Her departure may also have serious consequences for her brother, who is studying in Canada. Ms. Eshikena has been sending part of her earnings to help pay his rent.

Some Nigerians praised Mr. Trump for his decision, arguing it might make it more difficult for those responsible for stealing government money back home to find cover in the United States, and force the country’s leaders to be more honest and work harder to develop Nigeria.

In 2018, 7,922 immigrant visas were issued to Nigerians. Of these, 4,525 went to the immediate relatives of American citizens, and another 2,820 to other family members. An estimated 345,000 people born in Nigeria were living in the United States in 2017, according to the census bureau.

If the visas are coveted in Nigeria, they are just as prized in African countries like Eritrea, where government repression is rampant and those who try to leave face obstacles and danger. With more than 500,000 refugees living outside the country, Eritrea was the ninth-largest source of refugees in the world in 2018, according to the United Nations, but fewer than 900 Eritreans received immigrant visas to the United States that year.

Abraham Zere, a journalist who moved to the United States from Eritrea in 2012, had dreamed of living in the same country as his mother since leaving home. On Saturday, he said his plans to bring her to the United States had been thrown into disarray. His family has been in constant communication on the messaging platform WhatsApp trying to understand what the ban will mean for them.

“This decision complicates everything and creates fear,” said Mr. Zere, 37, a doctoral candidate at the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University.

Mr. Zere and other Eritreans say they can’t go back. They fear they will be punished for criticizing the government or leaving without approval.

“If I can’t be reunited with my mother,” Mr. Zere said, “it nullifies the whole notion of protection and punishes innocent citizens for reasons they had no slightest part in.”

With nine siblings scattered across Europe, Africa, and the United States, Mr. Zere said their family has never had a full family portrait taken.

The economic consequences of the ban could be far-reaching, experts said.

“Being cut off from the largest economy in the world systematically is problematic,” said Nonso Obikili, a Nigerian economist.

The biggest impact, he said, could be on remittances.

Nigerians abroad send home billions of dollars each year, $24 billion in 2018 alone, according to the accounting firm PwC. With Nigeria’s economy highly dependent on oil and its unemployment rate at 23 percent, this money provides a lifeline for millions of its citizens.

The new restrictions come at a time when the United States says it wants to jockey for power in Africa, particularly through its “Prosper Africa” initiative announced last summer, which aims to double two-way trade and investment.

“If on the one hand you’re trying to make a push into Africa, and on the other hand you’re barring the largest African country by population from moving to your country, then it does send mixed signals,” Mr. Obikili said.

In January 2017, Mr. Trump’s travel ban targeted several other African nations, including Chad, Libya, and Somalia. Chad was later removed from that list, but the executive order halted the plans of thousands of Somali refugee living in camps in Kenya who were about to travel to the United States and start new lives.

According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, nearly 30,000 Nigerians overstayed their nonimmigrant visas in 2018. The number of Nigerians visiting the United States dropped sharply after the Trump administration made it harder for visitors to obtain visas last summer.

The new restrictions affect those who want to move to the United States, not visit it.

The six countries newly added to the immigration ban are not easily categorized together by religion. Nigeria, for exampleis thought to be home to more than 200 million people, roughly half of them Muslim and half Christian. Of the four African countries newly singled out, only Sudan has a significant majority of Muslims.

The United States has left Sudan on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, even as the country works to reverse decades of authoritarian rule under President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was deposed in April.

“This ban contributes to the overall impression that Sudan remains a very fragile state,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, a research group.

Many people from the countries newly targeted by the ban said the uncertainty was the hardest thing to bear. Ms. Nwegbe, the newlywed, who works as the chief operating officer of a tourism company that tries to encourage people to visit Africa, said the ban came as she and her husband were building their future.

“We’re in limbo and our relationship is suffering,” she said. “This is unnecessary hardship.”

Ruth Maclean reported from London, and Abdi Latif Dahir from Nairobi, Kenya. Reporting was contributed by Zolan Kanno-Youngs in Washington; Eromo Egbejule from Lagos, Nigeria; Isaac Abrak from Abuja, Nigeria; Ismail Alfa from Maiduguri, Nigeria; and Emmett Lindner from New York.

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