Month: March 2016

I have sharply condemned the killing of this lion and said in a Tweet that he was shot in cold blood, to the apparent upset of people I know at KWS. Sorry my friends, your response to this lion excursion left everything to be desired and the press statements, very sadly, were not worth the…

AFTER ASSET SALES, FLEET REDUCTION AND OTHER SAVINGS ARE STAFF COST REDUCTIONS NEXT IN LINE AT KENYA AIRWAYS (Posted 31st March 2016) First it was the change in senior management figures, thought to bear significant responsibility for decisions taken in the past which led Kenya Airways close to the financial abyss. Then came the progressive…

Courtesy of Gill Staden, here comes another edition of the Livingstone bi-Weekly covering events in Zambia, Zimbabwe and beyond … https://thelivingstoneweekly.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/tlbw30mar16-compressed.pdf Cliff diving off the Victoria Falls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbAXEFJaCs Inside the newsletter: Staple food prices Fuel crisis Kazungula pontoon Barotse Floodplain highway Solwezi-Chingola Road Kapenta and Lerish No IMF Programme New Maps Zimbabwe Fishermen arrested SMART…

MUSEVENI NOW PLANS FOR SWEARING IN CEREMONY AS SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT PETITION (Posted 31st March 2016) The Supreme Court just now rendered its verdict over the Petition before it, where one of the losing candidates for President had challenged the election of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. While observing some logistical shortcomings and noting some…

MORE CHOICES FOR EAST AFRICANS TRAVELLING TO THE UK (Posted 31st March 2016) The United Kingdom remains on top of the countries visited by travelers from Eastern Africa and ever ready to meet market demands has Qatar Airways now launched daily flights between Doha and Birmingham, the fourth destination in Britain for the award winning…

10 DAYS AND COUNTING AS ZAVENTEM REMAINS CLOSED FOR TRAFFIC (Posted 31st March 2016) Following the last tweet by @BrusselsAirport at 17.28 hrs yesterday afternoon, which read: The evaluation of the trial is still ongoing and will take at least till tomorrow afternoon. No flights till then. has no further information emerged, not from any…

64 KILOGRAMS OF BLOOD IVORY SEIZED AT JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS CABINET SECRETARY OFFERS A LIMITED TIME AMNESTY (Posted 30th March 2016) Yesterday afternoon did increased vigilance and improved surveillance methods pay off when officials confiscated 64 kilograms of ivory, concealed in gunny bags and stuffed into buckets, was found by security operatives using…

FIRST FRIDAY IN SEPTEMBER SET ASIDE FOR FUTURE KWITA IZINA EVENTS (Posted 30th March 2016) In a development which has been murmured about for the past couple of days has the Rwandan government now given the annual naming of the new born gorillas its own dedicated day, being the first Friday of September. This shifts…

JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT’S ‘PROJECT GREENFIELD‘ HANGS IN BALANCE (Posted 30th March 2016) News emerging from aviation circles in Nairobi paint a grim picture over the future of Kenya’s most ambitious aviation infrastructure project, the 56 billion Kenya Shillings expansion of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport under what has been dubbed ‘Project Greenfield‘. Key to the…

ZIMBABWE BANKS ON MORE SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISTS AS FASTJET LAUNCHED VIC FALLS TO JO’BURG FLIGHTS (Posted 29th March 2016) The long Easter weekend provided the perfect platform for Fastjet Zimbabwe to launch their long awaited flights between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg. Good Friday saw the first two services operate between the two airports and on…

SEYCHELLES COMPLETES NETWORK OF INDIAN OCEAN SURVEILLANCE RADAR STATIONS (Posted 29th March 2016) The launch of the last of six new radar stations, capable to monitor and survey the extensive Indian Ocean waters around the Seychelles’ archipelago, will give the islands’ citizens and visitors added comfort of mind, it was learned over the long weekend…

FORMER WILDLIFE AUTHORITY BOSS SUCCUMBS TO CANCER (Posted 29th March 2016) (Moses Mapesa seen here during a visit for a board meeting of the Rhino Fund together with RFU Executive Director Angie Genade and former Chairman of RFU Dirk Ten Brink) Easter Monday marked the end of a life dedicated to the conservation of wildlife…

11 BIRTHS IN 7 YEARS SETS NEW RECORD IN RHINO BREEDING (Posted 28th March 2016) (Picture courtesy of Angie Genade / Rhinofund Uganda) Ugandan conservation circles will be celebrating when news reaches them too that baby rhino number 11 has been born on the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary of the Rhino Fund Uganda earlier today. Angie…

EDGING CLOSER TO RE-OPENING – BRUSSELS AIRPORT HAS ALL HANDS ON DECK TO ACHIEVE TUESDAY DEADLINE (Posted 28th March 2016) Since gaining access to the airport terminal building, after a number of Belgian and international forensics experts completed their work to examine the crime scene where terrorists had set off two bombs at Zaventem airport…

To all my readers, near and far, I extend my best wishes for a peaceful Easter celebration! (And a few pictures for, hopefully, every taste …) For those who like to escape through the skies when such holidays strike … One’s joy is the others nightmare it seems … Easter leaving some rather dumbstruck it…

ISRAEL’S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN ‘BIBI’ NETANYAHU TO ATTEND 40TH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL OF HIS BROTHER’S DEATH (Posted 27th March 2016) The recent State Visit by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta to Israel is thought to have been instrumental to get Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assurance that he will visit East Africa for the 40th anniversary of the…

MARRIOTT’S PROTEA BRAND SEEKS TO WIDEN PRESENCE IN UGANDA (Posted 27th March 2016) Regardless of the timeframe of the merger talks between Marriott and Starwood, which when completed would give Marriott added market presence in Uganda through the Kampala Sheraton Hotel, a brand of Starwood, has the global hotel giant’s Protea brand made headway to…