Russian tourists gather at the Egyptair check-in desk at the Domodedovo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The Russian state aviation agency, Rosaviatsiya, has cleared eight Russian airlines to operate flights to Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh from 43 cities all across Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr) By SAMY MAGDY Cairo (AP)

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta held bilateral talks with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London on January 21, 2020. By Business Daily Africa Travellers from Kenya remained banned to the United Kingdom in the latest update that took effect yesterday, coming days after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to Britain. The UK last week updated countries

Photo/Somali Times The Gedo region in Somalia confirmed that a plane carrying passengers from Nairobi crashed this morning at El Wak airport in Gedo region. The 5Y-GRS was en route to Elwak in Mandera County, according to local sources told Somali Times. The plane was carrying about 45 people from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, when

In this Wednesday, July 7, 2021, photo, tourists walk along a mostly empty Patong Beach on Phuket, southern Thailand. A week into an ambitious but risky plan to open the resort island of Phuket to fully-vaccinated visitors, signs were encouraging that the gambit to help breathe new life into the struggling tourism industry was working,

Russian An-26 plane with the tail number RA-26085 is seen in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia in this undated handout image released by Russia’s Emergencies Ministry on July 6, 2021. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry/Handout via REUTERS There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited

Aircraft with 6 crew, 22 passengers including 1 child on board, lost contact with air traffic control, say media reports Authorities in Russia lost contact with an AN-26 plane with several people on board in the eastern Kamchatka region, local media reported on Tuesday. The plane was en route to Palana from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia’s Sputnik

A passenger walks with her luggage at the Terminal 5 departures area at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, May 17, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley By Sarah Young LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) – Britain’s airlines and holiday companies are planning a “day of action” on Wednesday to ramp up pressure on the government to ease travel restrictions,

Tourists arrive at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa. By GERALD ANDAE Kenya has moved to safeguard its tourism sector from further hits by lifting a ban on passenger flights between Nairobi and London ahead of the peak Summer season. In a surprise move, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday announced the resumption of

Photo: Credit Business Daily Africa. The Kenyan government has announced that it has reopened flights to Somalia, following a long-standing embargo, exacerbating strained relations between neighboring Somalia and Kenya. An official statement from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that flights from Somalia to Kenya have been reopened today. The statement also said that

Photo: Credit Wikipedia Ethiopian Airlines. Travellers between Somalia and Kenya has been disrupted since the Kenyan government imposed a ban on flights between the two countries. Kenya’s decision to suspend flights has cut into a lot of people in Mogadishu and wide, and people to travel with, but it came days after a new route.