The South African government has come up with measures that would improve Indiaās travel and tourism relations in a major way. The country wants to upgrade the current e-visa system with an electronic travel arrangement…
South African Airways set to lay-off all its…
South African Airways (SAA) is set to lay off all of its employees at the end of April. A document detailing the airlineās severance package, obtained by Bloomberg, shows that 4,700 employees will leave the…
French COVID-19 evacuation halted after gunshot incident in…
Air France confirms that it had to postpone a flight from the Republic of Congo after the jet was damaged on Sunday by a bullet fired by a gendarme. The incident happened at the airport…
Madagascans profit from relaxed restriction to quit ‘infected’…
Residents of Madagascar capital Antananarivo flocked transport terminals on Tuesday in a bid to travel out of the capital to their hometowns. Many passengers are seizing the opportunity as the country announced a brief relaxation…
Botswana: Kweneng Issues Over 3 000 Travel Permits
Kweneng District commissioner, Ms Bernice Mosime, says over 3 300 COVID-19 travel permits have been issued in the district. Ms Mosime was giving an update to the media today. She said permits for essential workers…
Air Peace evacuates 274 Israel citizens to Tel-Aviv
Air Peace has evacuated about 274 Israelis from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Israelās major city, Tel-Aviv. The flight, which airlifted 65 passengers from Lagos…
Coronavirus restrictions enforced by Kenya police on transport,…
Kenya police fired tear gas to bring an end to the activities of local āMatatuā commercial transport drivers. It is feared that the use of these minibuses will help spread the COVID-19 infection. Police are…
Aero Contractors suspend flights over coronavirus
Aero Contractors on Tuesday suspended all their flights for two weeks, beginning from 26 March. The Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Captain Ado Sanusi announced the decision in Lagos Sanusi said the suspension is…
COVID-19: South African Airways suspends internal flights
South African Airways (SAA) said on Friday that it would immediately suspend all intercontinental flights until the end of May in response to a government travel ban aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus.…
Algeria ban protests, suspends air travelĀ
Algeriaās President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered a ban on mass street protests demanding political reforms for more than a year, to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The government also says it would suspend all…
Sudan closes airports to stop COVID-19 circulation
The Sudanese government on Monday declared a public health state of emergency to address coronavirus and decided to shut its ports and airports. The Security and Defense Council headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of…
Eritrea bans all internal, external travel
The Ministry of health in Eritrea has issued additional guidelines to all nationals & expatriates residing in the country. They have not recorded any case yet even though neighbours Sudan and Ethiopia have one and…
Virgin Atlantic, other UK airlines beg for bailout
Virgin Atlantic is leading Britainās airline industry to request for emergency government support worth up to Ā£7.5 billion and avert a catastrophe that would wipe out tens of thousands of jobs. Sky News and other…
South Africa repatriates 121 citizens from China
A large media contingent at the Gateway International Airport at Polokwane in Limpopo welcomed the arrival of 121 South African citizens repatriated from Wuhan, in China, the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic. The 121 expatriates…
Kenya Airways suspends flight to Rome
Kenya Airways on Thursday suspended flight on its Rome Geneva route in response to development of the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement the national carrier said the suspension was effective March 13 to April 30.…
COVID-19: Uganda restricts travel from 16 countriesĀ
Uganda has restricted visitors from some countries with what it terms high cases of coronavirus, including China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, South Korea, and Spain. "Government has decided to ask travelers from the affected countries…
Bus crash kills 29 people in Ghana.
Two buses caught fire after colliding in central Ghana, trapping passengers inside and killing at least 29 people early Monday, local government officials said. The buses collided in the Bono East area near Kintampo, Kintampo…
Egyptian Engineer sentenced to 15 Years imprisonment
A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced a train engineer to 15 years in prison for his conviction on charges of manslaughter and damaging public property stemming from a deadly locomotive crash last year at…
Families of air crash victims in Ethiopia seek…
A year after losing his wife in the Boeing Co. 737 Max crash in Ethiopia, itās the lack of information about what happened that is prolonging Bayihe Demissieās grief. This week, about 500 family members…
