Category: Airline Industry
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Global aircraft parts shortage grounds African airlines
African airlines are grappling with delays and cancellations as a global shortage of aircraft spare parts grounds planes worldwide. Smaller operators such as Uganda Airlines, Kenya Airways, Air Senegal and RwandAir have been the hardest-hit, with each airline ending the year with at least one aircraft grounded. The crisis is expected to cost the aviation…
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๐ช๐ฌ Egypt: Luxor festival sees Tahtib take centre stage
At a cultural festival in the Egyptian city of Luxor last week, the spotlight was primarily on tahtib, which is part sport, part traditional dance. With its moves drawn from a martial art, tahtib has its origins back in ancient Egypt, as the director of the festival’s opening ceremony explained. โMany tahtib players are participating…
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๐บ๐ธ U.S. Travel Ban Expands: Seven New Countries Face Full Restrictions, Impacting African Travel and Families
The new year ushered in stricter U.S. travel rules, with citizens from seven additional countries now completely barred from entering the United States, a policy that continues to separate families and complicate international exchange. The United States has significantly expanded its controversial travel restrictions, adding seven countries to its list of nations whose citizens are…
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Mali and Burkina Faso impose travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move
Mali and Burkina Faso say they will bar US citizens from entering their countries in response to a similar move by the Trump administration. The two West African states were recently placed under full entry restrictions under US President Donald Trump’s expanded travel ban. In separate statements, they said they would apply the same measures…
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๐ณ๐ช๐บ๐ธ Niger imposes indefinite ban on issuing visas to US citizens
Niger has imposed an indefinite ban on issuing visas to US citizens and on their entry into the country after the United States earlier in December adopted similar measures against Nigerien nationals. This was reported by the Niger Press Agency (ANP) on 25 December, citing a diplomatic source. ๐ฌโNiger fully and permanently bans the issuance…
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๐ฌ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ US to introduce visa bond of up to $15,000 for Guinean citizens from 2026
From 1 January 2026, the United States will introduce a visa bond system of up to $15,000 for citizens of Guinea, depending on the type of visa, the US Embassy in Conakry reported. ๐ฌโAny citizen or national traveling on a Guinean passport who applies for and is found eligible for a B1, B2, or B1/B2…
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๐ณ๐ฌ๐บ๐ธ US conducts reconnaissance flights over Nigeria
Since late November, the United States has been conducting reconnaissance flights over a significant part of Nigeria, with missions taking place almost daily, Reuters reported, citing monitoring data and statements by US officials. ๐ธAccording to the agency, the reconnaissance missions are carried out by aircraft operated by the contractor Tenax Aerospace, which works closely with…
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๐ง๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช Leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger launch joint AES television channel
The presidents of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have ceremonially launched a joint television channel of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), Maliโs newspaper LโEssor reported. ๐ธIbrahim Traorรฉ, Assimi Goรฏta and Abdourahamane Tchiani also took part in the channelโs first broadcast, during which the AES national anthem was played and reports were aired on the…
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๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฑ Ghana hits back at Israel with reciprocal deportations
Ghana has expelled three Israeli citizens after accusing Israeli authorities of mistreating and wrongfully deporting several Ghanaians who arrived in Tel Aviv last week. The move is Ghanaโs way of signalling that it will not tolerate what it sees as unfair treatment of its nationals abroad. In a statement issued on 10 December, the Ministry…
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๐จ๐ฉ Plane carrying ministerial delegation crashes in DR Congo
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a plane carrying a delegation from the Ministry of Mining, led by Minister Louis Watum Kabamba, crashed during landing at Kolwezi Airport in the south of the country on 17 November. There were no fatalities or injuries, the Congolese radio station Okapi reported, citing sources. ๐ธAccording to…
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