Kenya Airways Chief Executive Sebastian Mikosz has said local carrier Jambojet will start flying to Somali and Burundi as part of its plan to grow its regional presence. The Mogadishu flights will start on 15th November. Speaking to Capital in The Morning Mikosz said the airline sees an opportunity in the growing regional air traffic.

Egypt State Information Service yesterday denied “organ theft” of a British tourist who had recently died in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Officials were responding to reports published in a number of British newspapers who cited the tourist’s family as saying that his body was returned to the UK missing organs including his heart

Passengers were getting ready to board the world’s longest flight on Thursday — a marathon 19 hours in the air between Singapore and New York. Two pilots, a special “wellness” menu and more than seven weeks’ worth of film and television entertainment were expected to accompany travelers on the 16,700-kilometer (10,400-mile) journey to the Big

Mogadishu – Warsheikh District in the Middle Shabelle region in the Somali capital, the Somali Federal Government prepares a tourist destination for the country. The director of the Ministry of Information Ministry of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr Abdirizaq Abdi Abdullahi, who was part of the federal government who arrived in Warsheikh, said the

The Dubai International Airport is operating as normal following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday. “Air traffic in the UAE is ongoing normally and naturally,” the Civil Aviation Authority said on Twitter. Earlier Sunday, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television said a Sammad-3 drone had carried

Turkey will do more to draw tourists from the Far East as part of its new economic program, a top tourism official told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. “Tourism professionals are working on the Far East market in order to attract more tourist from those countries,” said Firuz Baglikaya, head of the Association of Turkish Travel

Kenya’s tourism industry is increasingly driving exports and providing foreign exchange, earning the country tourism expenditures of about 1.2 billion US dollars in 2017. This represented a 20% increase from approximately 989 million US dollars in 2016, according to a hospitality report by Jumia Travel. This improving sector performance is being facilitated by various factors,

Britain’s Thomas Cook (TCG.L) said it was evacuating all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear. Local officials said on Friday both deaths were from heart failure. John Cooper, 69,

Ankara-Turkish Airlines carried 43.2 million passengers from January to July this year, the airline announced Thursday. Number of passengers rises 15.2 pct year-on-year to 43.2M in first 7 months of 2018, says the airline According to a statement, the total number of passengers carried by Turkey’s national flag carrier saw a 15.2-percent hike on a

London -The British Foreign Office has warned citizens of the country to travel to Somalia.A statement from the British Foreign Office said that Somalia is currently in a security risk. United Kingdom has indicated its citizens, if they arrive in Somalia, could face terrorist attacks and kidnappings. This warning applies to Somalia, including Somaliland, except