RWANDA’S TOURISM INCOME SHARPLY UP COMPARED TO 2010 The first quarter results of tourism’s sectoral performance were released yesterday and the earnings confirmed by government sources are in the region of US Dollars 56 million, compared with a figure of only 43 million US Dollars last year, which ended as the best ever nevertheless. Visitor [...]
Archive for April, 2011
30 Apr
Aviation news update – AFRAA takes issue with EU ‘Blacklist’
AFRAA ATTACKS EU AIRLINE BLACK LISTING The African Airline Association, based in Nairobi, has come out strongly against the ban on LAM Mozambique in the most recent blacklist edition published by the European aviation oversight body. Citing a ‘flawless record’ since 1989 AFRAA questioned which rationale was used to include LAM in the list of [...]
30 Apr
Kenya conservation news – Park communities denounce officials
PARK COMMUNITIES DENOUNCE OFFICIALS Community leaders around the Masai Mara, one of Kenya’s best known game reserves, have minced no words recently when denouncing the Narok County Council and other officials for perpetuating poverty amongst the people living near the park boundaries. While the Kenya Wildlife Service is in charge of most of the national [...]
30 Apr
Uganda news update – My heart cries for my country
MY HEART CRIES FOR THE PEARL OF AFRICA Rent-a-mobs, assembled and allegedly paid for overnight, descended into the streets of Kampala on Friday morning, and in fact some other towns upcountry too, to do the bidding of their political master, cause chaos, loot and steal and make Uganda look bad in the international media. Alongside [...]
29 Apr
Kenya conservation breaking news – Another Chinese nabbed with 100 KG of blood ivory
ANOTHER CHINESE NATIONAL NABBED WITH 100 KG OF BLOOD IVORY Airline security in conjunction with customs and police deployed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi have last night arrested yet another Chinese national, transiting in Nairobi with blood ivory in his baggage. This latest find is again attributed to the increasingly alert officers [...]
29 Apr
Sudan news update – Bashir threatens renewed war
KHARTOUM’S REGIME THREATENS RENEWED WAR Stung by an internal revolt last week leading to the sacking of his national security advisor, Khartoum’s regime leader Bashir, true to his colours finally shown in public again, threatened to go back to war to keep the disputed oil state of Abyei under Northern domination. This was learned overnight [...]
29 Apr
Tanzania conservation news – MP blames ‘foreigners only’ for anti highway opposition
IT IS ONLY THE FOREIGNERS WHO ARE AGAINST THE HIGHWAY – OH REALLY The member of parliament for Ngorongoro, one Ole Telele, raised a storm of heated arguments yesterday in Dar es Salaam during a WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature – sponsored dialogue over the pro’s and con’s of the proposed highway across [...]
29 Apr
Uganda news update – Libyan owned UTL suffers defeat in court
LIBYAN OWNED UTL IN DIRE STRAITS One of the frozen assets owned by Gadaffi Libya, Uganda Telecom, has suffered a severe blow in court yesterday, when the Commercial Court delivered judgment on a pending suit brought by telecoms giant MTN against UTL over ‘interconnection fees’. Once one of Uganda’s most promising companies, after being privatized from the former [...]
28 Apr
Uganda aviation news update – Shell rockets AVGAS price to USD 2.71
SHELL RAISES AVGAS PRICE TO USD 2.71 Shell has been accused by sections of the aviation fraternity of blatant exploitation, with the word ‘racketeering’ not being formally spoken but certainly floating between the lines, when their latest price for AVGAS rockets to US Dollars 2.71, compared to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport, where the commodity sells at [...]
28 Apr
Uganda aviation news update – Aero Club adds Twin Otter – 400
KAMPALA AERO CLUB TAKES DELIVERY OF TWIN OTTER – 400 Information was confirmed this morning that the Kampala Aero Club and Flight Training Centre, aka KAFTC, has taken delivery of their long awaited twin engined De Havilland Twin Otter – 400 aircraft, which is now being integrated into the growing fleet of the ‘charter only’ airline at [...]
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