LIBYAN OWNED COMPANIES FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE Concerns are growing amongst management and staff of Libyan owned companies like LAICO Hotels and Uganda Telecom about their future and their biggest shareholder’s ability to inject further capital into the companies for expansion, modernization and system upgrades. LAICO Hotels for instance owns the Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe, but [...]
Archive for February, 2011
28 Feb
Stop press – Breaking News – Kenyans home from Libya, Ugandans on next flight to Entebbe
AFRICAN EVACUEES LAND IN NAIROBI The Kenyan contingent on the Kenya Airways special flight KQ 1322 were given a tumultuous welcome by relatives and friends, when the KQ B767-300 touched down at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport a short while ago. Unlike many others rescued by the same mission, who will now make their way home [...]
27 Feb
Stop Press Update – Libya evacuees from East Africa now in Cairo
EAST AFRICAN LIBYA EVACUEES NOW SAFE IN CAIRO 151 passengers were airlifted out of Tripoli last night under what has been described as ‘chaotic circumstances’, with navigation, ground handling and check in suffering from the political upheavals now witnessed across much of Libya. The mercy flight, which was initially due to take off from Tripoli for [...]
27 Feb
Breaking News – Egypt’s thoughts on the Nile waters laid bare by WikiLeaks
WIKILEAKS CONFIRM EGYPT’S HOSTILITY OVER NILE WATER AGREEMENTS The government of fallen ‘Pharaoh’ Hosni Mubarak has now finally been exposed by more WikiLeaks cables published last week, confirming what East African countries for long suspected and what a Ugandan diplomat a few weeks ago ‘spilled’ – reported here at the time: Egypt did consider the use of [...]
27 Feb
News update – Kenya plans two tier strategy to sell off hotel, lodge and resort shareholdings
KTDC’S SALE IN HOTEL SHARES TO BE A TWO TIER AFFAIR Information from Nairobi about the upcoming sale of shares in hotels, lodges and resorts, held by the Kenya Tourist Development Corporation on behalf of the Kenyan government, talks of a two tier strategy in selling off these holdings, or as it appears turning some [...]
26 Feb
Stop Press – Breaking News – Kenya Airways mercy flight to Tripoli underway
KENYA AIRWAYS COMES TO THE RESCUE OF EAST AFRICANS IN LIBYA Information just received gives an update of the planned Kenya Airways evacuation flight, operated on a wide body B767-300 from Nairobi via Cairo to Tripoli this afternoon. The Libyan Civil Aviation Authority eventually did grant a landing permit on humanitarian grounds, as the aircraft was already [...]
26 Feb
News Update – Kenya keeps Visa fee low
SMART MOVE KEEPS KENYAN VISA FEES AT 25 USD The Kenyan government, according to a well placed source in Nairobi, is set to keep the fees for a tourist Visa at 25 US Dollars per person, and will only review this by July 2011. The savings, for instance for a family of four, runs into [...]
26 Feb
Breaking News – Uganda habituating two more gorilla groups in Bwindi
MORE HABITUATED GORILLA GROUPS TO ‘COME ON LINE’ BY MID 2011 Information was received from a regular source at the Uganda Wildlife Authority that the habituation of two more groups of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is in its final stages. Hence, later this year a further 16 permits for gorilla tracking will be available [...]
26 Feb
Breaking News – UWA makes more bad headlines
UWA BACK IN ‘BADLINES’ More headlines emerged this weekend, when the Daily Monitor made further sweeping allegations about the state of affairs at Uganda Wildlife Authority and blamed the tourism minister Kahinda Otafiire – aka Minister for Crocodiles by his own words – for usurping executive powers in contravention of the existing law. The newspaper reportedly obtained [...]
25 Feb
Breaking News – Kenya Airways signs extended agreement with TravelPort
TRAVELPORT AND KENYA AIRWAYS EXTEND PARTNERSHIP This morning both Kenya Airways and TravelPort put pen to paper in Nairobi and extended a successful 14 year old partnership, confirming continued cooperation for distribution services. KQ mainly uses the Galileo platform for their links with the travel trade and corporate clients ‘big enough’ to install the system on their premises. Said [...]
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