#Uganda finally declared #EbolaFree again
(Posted 12th January 2023) Uganda overall and the tourism industry in particular will breath a combined sigh of relief after the local Ministry of Health has announced that the country has, finally, been declared Ebola free again. Achieving this goal was during this latest outbreak made more difficult as past full lockdown […]
#BreakingNews as #US tightens entry checks for travelers from #Uganda over #Ebola concerns
(Posted 06th October 2022) The US Embassy in Kampala has made a stark announcement, effective midnight tonight U.S. Eastern Time, about entry requirements for all travelers from Uganda, who have been in the East African country for the past 21 days. Enhanced Screening and Entry only at Designated U.S. Airports As of October 06th, at 11:59 […]
#WHO commends #Rwanda on #Ebola preparedness
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION APPLAUDS RWANDA FOR ANTI EBOLA MEASURES (Posted 26th July 2019) WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today commended Rwanda on its ongoing Ebola preparedness efforts and confirmed that no cases of Ebola have been reported from the country to date. “Rwanda has been proactive and engaged in Ebola preparedness at all levels […]
#Ebola reaches #Goma
FIRST EBOLA CASE IN MAJOR CONGOLESE CITY (Posted 16th July 2019) East African countries with borders to the Democratic Republic of the Congo are once more stepping up measures to stop being infiltrated by individuals potentially carrying the deadly virus. This happened two months ago when a Congolese family crossed over into Uganda, prompting an […]
#Uganda declared free of #Ebola
NO EBOLA IN UGANDA SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (Posted 10th July 2019) Both the WHO and the Ugandan Ministry of Health, in a joint statement earlier this week officially declared Uganda free of Ebola, after the incubation period – following the two imported cases which crossed over from Congo – expired and made way for […]
No Ebola cases left in #Uganda
WHO AND UGANDA’S MINISTRY OF HEALTH ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT (Posted 17th June 2019) While the formal confirmation, that Uganda is Ebola free, will wait until the incubation period has run its course, have health officials and WHO officials visiting Uganda on the way from and to Congo issued a joint statement, which is shown above […]
Update on Ebola cases at Congo / Uganda border town
#Congo’s turmoil the cause for Ebola case in the Ugandan border town of Bwera
TURMOIL IN EASTERN CONGO PREVENTS FULL CRISIS RESPONSE TO EBOLA OUTBREAK (Posted 12th June 2019) Uganda’s Ministry of Health has confirmed a case of Ebola in the western Ugandan town of Bwera. The young victim is thought to have crossed over from Congo with his mother – a Congolese national married to a Ugandan – […]
#Ebola in #Congo – an update by #Atta’s medical advisor
Atta Medical Update: Status of Ebola Outbreak in the DRC
#WHO raps the government in Congo over Ebola
EBOLA IN CONGO – A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO NOT JUST CONGO BUT ALL HER EASTERN NEIGHBOURS (Posted 14th December 2018) Non-engagement from communities and conflict continue to hamper response activities in some affected areas The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is occurring in an unforgiving context. […]
Eastern African countries with borders to #Congo step up #Ebola monitoring
COUNTRIES IN EAST AFRICA STEP UP EBOLA SCREENING (Posted 07th August 2018) The latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the second in the space of a few months, has led to a series of additional protective measures by neighbouring countries like Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and South Sudan. Key to containing […]
#Congo under pressure to step up #Ebola fight
CONGO’S NEIGHBOURS ON HIGH ALERT AFTER COUNTRY FAILS TO CONTAIN EBOLA OUTBREAK (Posted 18th May 2018) Countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo have gone on high alert after information emerged that health authorities in the Congo have failed to contain the current Ebola outbreak to the area of origin. At least one case, probably […]
Africa is not Ebola campaign earns Brussels Airlines a big award
BRUSSELS AIRLINES GETS ‘CLINTON GLOBAL CITIZEN AWARD 2015’ (Posted 17th October 2015) Together with a select group of 23 organizations has Brussels Airlines been honoured for its leadership and response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its continued effort to improve the health and well-being of the affected communities. ‘In difficult operational circumstances […]
#EbolaIsNotAfrica – and certainly there is none in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda
AFRICA IS NOT EBOLA – BRUSSELS AIRLINES LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN (Posted 15th February 2015) A meeting on Friday with the Brussels Airlines management in Kampala, country manager Sebastiaan Spijkers and Belinda Sebunya, was mainly to get first hand updates, such as the airline’s return to Washington with five flights a week for the summer season. […]
Safari Companies change tack in the face of Ebola fears
In the wake of the Ebola epidemic causing wildlife tourism bookings to drop precipitously in countries as far away from the outbreak as Kenya, a coalition of safari companies announced today that they will ease their cancellation policies and even waive cancellation fees in the unlikely event of an Ebola outbreak in the countries in […]
Statement from the Travel and Transport Task Force on Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa
As the Africa Travel Association’s Annual World Congress goes underway today at Kampala / Uganda’s lake side conference and resort centre of Munyonyo has the World Health Organization once again spoke out abut the ongoing Ebola hype which has, largely as a result of ignorant and at times deliberate misreporting resulted in blanket cancellations of […]
Uganda is The Pearl of Africa – open for business, safe to visit and free of Ebola
GORILLA HIGHLANDS – UGANDA’S FINEST PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVE (Posted 08th November 2014) The brain behind the unique Gorilla Highlands initiative, Miha Logar, has targeted the presence of a large contingent of the international media in Uganda from this weekend ahead of the Africa Travel Association’s annual congress to launch a new media kit for journalists […]
Ebola prevention, a genuine measure or just another bureaucratic attempt to make a travelers’ life more miserable?
THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TRAVEL IN THIS AGE OF EBOLA (Posted 03rd November 2014) The age of Ebola has again brought out the worst of bureaucratic impositions on travelers, at times giving the impression that those manning or wo-manning the desks are primarily ready to teach their ‘victims, aka clients, customers, arriving passengers and […]
Ebola screening – in Rwanda at least now a two way street
RWANDA TURNS THE TABLES ON EUROPE’S AND AMERICA’S ANTI AFRICA EBOLA MEASURES (Posted 22nd October 2014) Rwanda has with immediate effect introduced new rules for visitors from America and Spain coming to the country. Cognizant of the fact that active Ebola outbreaks are ongoing in both countries must visitors coming from there or having traveled […]
Will Kenya Airways return to West African countries affected by Ebola – President Kenyatta thinks so
KENYATTA STATEMENT OPENS DOOR FOR KENYA AIRWAYS TO RETURN TO WEST AFRICA (Posted 26th September 2014) Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta, while addressing the UN Summit in New York earlier in the week, blamed the suspension of flights by Kenya Airways on what he called a ‘stark warning from the WHO’, laying the blame on the […]
How different Indian Ocean islands take different measures to protect themselves against Ebola
EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA – DIFFERENT ISLANDS DIFFERENT RULES (Posted 23rd September 2014) The outbreak of Ebola in some West Africa countries has prompted different levels of responses and reactions, at times best described as knee jerk, across much of Africa. While Kenya Airways has bowed to public pressure at home and halted flights to […]
Anti travel advisories and Ebola drive down Africa’s tourism arrivals
AFRICA’S TOURISM GROWTH LAGS BEHIND GLOBAL AVERAGE THIS YEAR (Posted 16th September 2014) The latest data available from the United Nations World Tourism Organization show an increase in global travel by 5 percent, in real numbers up to 517 million travelers during the first half of 2014 as compared to 495 million in 2013. The […]
Ebola – now also in Congo DR
EBOLA OUTBREAK ADDS TO CONGO’S CHALLENGES (Posted 25th August 2014) Already facing challenges of near biblical proportions, from internal strife to crumbling and often entirely absent infrastructure, low literacy, corrupt regimes and often inexplicable hostility against Eastern neighbours Uganda and Rwanda has the country’s Equator Province now suffered a confirmed Ebola outbreak. An already overburdened […]
Why treat passengers from Entebbe as if there was Ebola in Uganda?
ANGER AND FRUSTRATION FOR ENTEBBE PASSENGERS ON ARRIVAL IN NAIROBI (Posted 09th August 2014) News that passengers from Entebbe, arriving in Nairobi by air, were subjected to the same intense tests and interrogation as passengers arriving from Ebola affected countries in West Africa, caused instant anger and frustration, with two travelers known to this correspondent […]
Ebola ? Not here says RwandAir !
THERE IS NO EBOLA IN RWANDA (Posted 08th August 2014) As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa rages on are concerns being expressed in countries with air connections to the affected countries about increased risks of spreading the disease. News that Emirates earlier in the week suspended flights to Conakry / Guinea only fueled speculation […]
RwandAir’s Ebola statement now has both main East African airlines flying West go on record
RWANDAIR REASSURES PASSENGERS ON EBOLA CONCERNS (Posted 02nd August 2014) As RwandAir prepares to launch daily flights between Entebbe and Juba has the airline also issued a media statement over the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, where WB flies presently to 5 destinations, four of them entirely unaffected at this moment in time by […]
Kenya proves to be proactive in Ebola prevention
KENYA’S MINISTRY OF HEALTH ISSUES PUBLIC STATEMENT ON EBOLA RISKS (Posted 01st August 2014) Following increasing concerns among the public over the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, with now over 700 dead in four countries, has the Kenyan Ministry of Health issued a public statement to reassure Kenyans, and visitors to Kenya. With daily […]
Ebola outbreak in West Africa prompts airline reactions
KENYA AIRWAYS ANNOUNCES MEASURES VIS A VIS EBOLA OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA (Posted 31st July 2014) Kenya Airways has taken steps to reassure passengers flying with them over the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, as concerns by the general public rose to new levels. KQ is one of two airlines in East Africa which […]
Ebola returns to Uganda
FRESH EBOLA OUTBREAK HITS UGANDA Tourism stakeholders, just returned from a successful WTM 2012 attendance in London, are facing up to stark news that Ebola has yet again reappeared and already claimed two victims in the Luwero District of Uganda. Six weeks after the last outbreak was confirmed to have been brought under control and […]
Combined WHO and Ministry of Health team confirm Ebola outbreak in Uganda
EBOLA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN UGANDA A joint team of Ministry of Health and World Health Organization officials has yesterday officially confirmed in Kampala that an outbreak of Ebola has in recent days killed 14 people in the western district of Kibaale, some 200 KM from Ugandas capital city. Samples were tested at Ugandas Virus Research […]
