Turkish Airlines launches Kilimanjaro / Mombasa flights
TURKISH MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT TO MOMBASA Turkish Airlines has yesterday commenced scheduled flights into Mombasa, serving Kenya’s coastal city now 5 times a week. Passengers connecting from Turkish’s global network via Istanbul will now have the option to fly to THY’s second Kenyan destination, after Nairobi, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, leaving IST […]
COMESA Business Forum releases ‘Munyonyo Declaration’
COMESA BUSINESS COUNCIL RELEASES ‘MUNYONYO DECLARATION’ Following the conclusion of the COMESA Business Forum, held alongside the 16th COMESA Summit at the end of last month in Kampala, has the secretariat now released the ‘Munyonyo Declaration’ in which key elements discussed by hundreds of delegates, and the respective conclusions and recommendations are now available on […]
KWS admits to significant decline in elephant numbers in Northern Kenya since last census
KWS RAISES ALARM ON ELEPHANT NUMBERS The recently concluded aerial game survey in Northern Kenya has reportedly come up with some stark declines, in particular for elephant and the Gravy Zebra species. KWS Chief Executive William Kiprono, unlike his predecessor Dr. Julius Kipng’etich who had the EcoTourism Kenya CEO arrested for publicly disagreeing with the […]
Uganda’s tourism fortunes get boost by National Geographic
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES UGANDA IN THEIR GLOBAL TOP 20 DESTINATIONS As 2012 is waning now, and with it Uganda’s accolade as the Lonely Planet Guide Books Number ONE Destination for the year, and the hype fades of reaching the half century mark of Independence from Britain, the country is getting an unexpected but well deserved […]
New tourism parastatals fail to take off in absence of boards
LACK OF BOARD APPOINTMENTS FOR TOURISM PARASTATALS CAUSE OF MORE DISSENT The absence of substantive boards of directors at the newly created tourism parastatals is said to be a further cause of growing dissent within the tourism industry and between senior stakeholders, the associations under which the industry comes together and the tourism minister. The […]
Who keeps slamming the brakes in Mauritius tourism
A reproduction of an intriguing article in Le Mauricien, written by Jean Clement Cangy … Vanilla Islands moving, without Mauritius… JEAN CLÉMENT CANGY, the known and respected Mauritian Journalist writes in popular Le MauricienNewspaper on the 3rd December that Mauritius is suffering more than the other islands of the region from the economic crises of […]
Congo militias suspected in attack on Rwandan gorilla monitoring and research camp
CONGO’S ANTI RWANDA MILITIAS SUSPECTED IN RAID ON GORILLA MONITORING CAMP The attack yesterday morning on the Kazi Camp, operated by the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund International, which killed one staff and saw others injured, was swiftly denounced by several sources close to the powers that be in Rwanda. Fingers were also immediately pointed to […]
Emirates counters B787 hype with more A380 destinations and frequencies
EMIRATES COUNTERS WITH ADDED A380 DESTINATIONS Emirates sales teams have swiftly reacted across East Africa to the news that arch rival Qatar Airways will launch their new B787 on the route to London from mid December, when the airline announced additional A380 destinations. ‘The Airbus A380 provides the greatest comfort available in the sky today. […]
Serengeti Highway case to start on January 23rd
EACJ WILL HEAR SERENGETI HIGHWAY CASE FROM 23 JAN 2013 The East African Court of Justice in Arusha has last Friday announced the trial date for the case environmental groups have brought against the Tanzanian government over the controversial routing of a planned highway across the Serengeti. The case will commence on January 23rd but […]
Weekly roundup of news from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, First edition December 2012
AVIATION, TOURISM AND CONSERVATION NEWS from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. A weekly roundup of breaking news, reports, travel stories and opinions by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome You can get your daily breaking news updates instantly via Twitter by following @whthome, join me on www.facebook.com/WolfgangHThome where the articles also ‘cross load’ or […]
Kampala Aero Club partners with Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation
KAMPALA AERO CLUB JOINS HANDS WITH COASTAL TO OFFER FLIGHTS TO SERENGETI Tanzania’s Coastal Aviation and Uganda’s Kampala Aero Club and Flight Training Centre, aka Fly Uganda, will effective 15th December offer a unique link, connecting the great migration of Tanzania’s Serengeti with the prized mountain gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi National Park. The flights will […]
Another Iljushin crash claims the lives of crew and scores on the ground
ILJUSHIN CRASH KILLS CREW AND SCORES ON GROUND Information is emerging from Brazzaville that an Iljushin 76 cargo plane, owned by Aero Services, while attempting to land at Brazzaville’s international airport, crashed into a housing estate, killing the crew on board and scores of people on the ground as the plane hit, disintegrated and the […]
Mauritius gets its groove back as Emirates goes double daily
EMIRATES TO GO DOUBLE DAILY TO MAURITIUS Starting tomorrow, 02nd December, Emirates will move from presently 11 flights per week between Dubai and Mauritius to 14, making it a double daily affair with the island in time for the forthcoming high season when the holidays start, using a B777 for the extra flights. Mauritius’s hospitality […]
