President Donald Trump has lifted the travel ban on Chad, one of eight mostly Muslim majority nations whose citizens are generally barred from traveling to the U.S.

The White House cited what it calls improvements in Chad's "identity management and information sharing protocols and procedures," meaning the country again meets basic U.S. security standards.

Chad was named in the president's most recent travel ban, along with Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.

But its inclusion on the travel ban list puzzled many analysts, who pointed out that its government has been a key U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism.

美國總統川普取消了對乍得公民入境美國的禁令。乍得是美國嚴格限制公民入境的大多為穆斯林國家的8個國家之一。

白宮說，乍得改善了身份識別的管理以及信息共享程序。這意味著乍得滿足了美國的基本安全要求。

根據川普總統的建議，乍得和伊朗、利比亞、朝鮮、索馬里、敘利亞和也門等國家的公民除特殊情況外禁止進入美國。

不過，乍得被列入旅行禁令讓很多分析人士感到不解。乍得政府一直是美國打擊恐怖主義的關鍵盟友之一。