Kenya Airways will from the 01st to the 21st of March inclusive halt their flights to Douala, where the airport will be closed during these three weeks following a NOTAM issued by Cameroon’s aviation authorities.
Kenya Airways currently flies six times a week to Douala, and four of these flights continue to the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé. During the Douala airport closure will the flights to Yaoundé continue directly however from Nairobi. The remaining two flights, which normally stopover in Bangui, will during the three week period terminate in the capital of the Central African Republic and return directly to Kenya.
Normal flight services as per the schedules published will resume from the 22nd of March onwards, or once the NOTAM has been lifted.
It could not be ascertained what the nature of the repairs at Douala is but ordinarily, when an airport is completely closed, major runway repairs and re-sealing is carried out.
Travelers booked to Douala during the first three weeks in March will be rebooked without added cost and should expect notification from Kenya Airways in due course.
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Friday, 27 November 2015
KENYA: Pope Francis Speaks Out Against Ivory Poaching
Pope Francis has urged global action against the illegal trafficking of blood diamonds, ivory and other natural resources, in the second day of his landmark three-nation Africa trip.
In a speech in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Thursday, the pope said the illegal trade in precious stones and ivory fulled political instability and organised crime.
"We cannot be silent about forms of illegal trafficking which arise in situations of poverty," he said, just two weeks before Nairobi hosts a key ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation.
Figures published earlier this year by Amnesty International showed conflict diamonds, which account for four percent of total global production, have helped finance civil wars and prop up military regimes.
The pontiff's remarks on wildlife trafficking were likely to hit home in Kenya, a country trying to stamp out rampant poaching to protect its remaining elephant population.
Hundreds of elephants are lost to poaching every year, with conservationists warning the African elephant could be extinct in the wild within a generation.
The Argentine pope also warned against "the globalisation of indifference" and the danger of becoming resigned to "new forms of slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, prostitution and trafficking in organs".
Tens of thousands of Kenyans travelled to the centre of Nairobi on Thursday for a chance to attend a Mass with Pope Francis on his first official visit to the continent.
Rain poured down on the crowds which was considered a blessing from Pope Francis, some of whom had spent the night outside the custom-built chapel in central Nairobi.
He next visits Uganda and the Central African Republic to address a number of pressing concerns, including climate change, conflict resolution, corruption and interfaith tolerance.
In a speech in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Thursday, the pope said the illegal trade in precious stones and ivory fulled political instability and organised crime.
"We cannot be silent about forms of illegal trafficking which arise in situations of poverty," he said, just two weeks before Nairobi hosts a key ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation.
Figures published earlier this year by Amnesty International showed conflict diamonds, which account for four percent of total global production, have helped finance civil wars and prop up military regimes.
The pontiff's remarks on wildlife trafficking were likely to hit home in Kenya, a country trying to stamp out rampant poaching to protect its remaining elephant population.
Hundreds of elephants are lost to poaching every year, with conservationists warning the African elephant could be extinct in the wild within a generation.
The Argentine pope also warned against "the globalisation of indifference" and the danger of becoming resigned to "new forms of slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, prostitution and trafficking in organs".
Tens of thousands of Kenyans travelled to the centre of Nairobi on Thursday for a chance to attend a Mass with Pope Francis on his first official visit to the continent.
Rain poured down on the crowds which was considered a blessing from Pope Francis, some of whom had spent the night outside the custom-built chapel in central Nairobi.
He next visits Uganda and the Central African Republic to address a number of pressing concerns, including climate change, conflict resolution, corruption and interfaith tolerance.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
KENYA: Pope Francis Lectures Humility To African Leaders
In a region where presidents speed past slums in cavalcades of luxury vehicles and the public complain about corruption in high office, the pope was cheered as he drove in a small Honda and told national leaders to act with integrity.
Kenya's prolific Twitter users were quick to notice the contrast. "Thieving politicians arrive in their SUVs and Mercs to listen to @Pontifex who will arrive in a Honda. Shameless 'leaders'," wrote @Kunj_Shah. Francis, who has spurned many of the institutional perks of the Vatican, shunned the armoured cars with tinted glass driven by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his entourage.
Nor did he follow the example of visitors like U.S. President Barack Obama, who turned up in Nairobi in July for an official visit with an army of security personnel and a bullet-proof limousine, dubbed "the Beast". Instead, the pope waved to rapturous crowds from his white popemobile with open sides despite pouring rain and was ferried around Nairobi in the Honda that local media said cost a modest 1.5 million shillings ($14,700).
"The pope is down to earth," said a by stander, who braved a downpour to attend open-air Mass in a sodden Nairobi University sports field. "It is good for our leaders to notice."
"They like the wealth of the world but they can't understand the people of our country," she said. "It is vanity."
The pope lives in a small apartment in a guesthouse in the Vatican rather than the spacious papal apartments in the regal and frescoed Apostolic Palace used by his predecessors.
The day after his election in 2013, he returned to a Rome hotel to personally pay his bill and recently went to a Rome optician to pick up his own eyeglasses.
In September, he rode around Washington DC in a small Fiat on his state visit there.
His Africa trip will take the Pope to Uganda and the Central African Republic, a nation mired in sectarian conflict. He dismissed security concerns, joking with reporters that the "only thing I'm concerned about is the mosquitoes".
Barely two hours after arriving in Nairobi on Wednesday, Francis told the president and dignitaries they had a duty to care for the poor and support the aspirations of the young.
"I encourage you to work with integrity and transparency for the common good, and to foster a spirit of solidarity at every level of society," he said, speaking in the elegant surroundings of State House, the Kenyan president's official residence.
A day earlier, Kenyatta reshuffled his cabinet after several ministers were embroiled in corruption allegations. Kenyatta, a Catholic like 30 percent of Kenya's 45 million people, also spoke of the challenge of graft in his welcome to the pope.
"Your Holiness, like you, as a nation we want to combat the vices of corruption which sacrifice people and the environment in the pursuit of illegal profit," Kenyatta told Francis. "Holy Father, I ask for your prayer as we fight this war."
Scandals in past months have ranged from a ministry buying ballpoint pens for $85 each and probes into multi-million dollar government contract awards. It has angered Kenyans, even though they are long used to corruption sagas where top officials never seem to be convicted.
When he was finance minister Kenyatta tried to address ostentation among officials, demanding they use smaller cars but there has been little lasting impact.
"The sheer humility of the Pope, the simplicity of his message, I fear may be lost on the most rapacious elite on this side of Africa," John Githongo, Kenya's former anti-graft tsar and now an outspoken anti-corruption activist, said.
Kenya's prolific Twitter users were quick to notice the contrast. "Thieving politicians arrive in their SUVs and Mercs to listen to @Pontifex who will arrive in a Honda. Shameless 'leaders'," wrote @Kunj_Shah. Francis, who has spurned many of the institutional perks of the Vatican, shunned the armoured cars with tinted glass driven by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his entourage.
Nor did he follow the example of visitors like U.S. President Barack Obama, who turned up in Nairobi in July for an official visit with an army of security personnel and a bullet-proof limousine, dubbed "the Beast". Instead, the pope waved to rapturous crowds from his white popemobile with open sides despite pouring rain and was ferried around Nairobi in the Honda that local media said cost a modest 1.5 million shillings ($14,700).
"The pope is down to earth," said a by stander, who braved a downpour to attend open-air Mass in a sodden Nairobi University sports field. "It is good for our leaders to notice."
"They like the wealth of the world but they can't understand the people of our country," she said. "It is vanity."
The pope lives in a small apartment in a guesthouse in the Vatican rather than the spacious papal apartments in the regal and frescoed Apostolic Palace used by his predecessors.
The day after his election in 2013, he returned to a Rome hotel to personally pay his bill and recently went to a Rome optician to pick up his own eyeglasses.
In September, he rode around Washington DC in a small Fiat on his state visit there.
His Africa trip will take the Pope to Uganda and the Central African Republic, a nation mired in sectarian conflict. He dismissed security concerns, joking with reporters that the "only thing I'm concerned about is the mosquitoes".
Barely two hours after arriving in Nairobi on Wednesday, Francis told the president and dignitaries they had a duty to care for the poor and support the aspirations of the young.
"I encourage you to work with integrity and transparency for the common good, and to foster a spirit of solidarity at every level of society," he said, speaking in the elegant surroundings of State House, the Kenyan president's official residence.
A day earlier, Kenyatta reshuffled his cabinet after several ministers were embroiled in corruption allegations. Kenyatta, a Catholic like 30 percent of Kenya's 45 million people, also spoke of the challenge of graft in his welcome to the pope.
"Your Holiness, like you, as a nation we want to combat the vices of corruption which sacrifice people and the environment in the pursuit of illegal profit," Kenyatta told Francis. "Holy Father, I ask for your prayer as we fight this war."
Scandals in past months have ranged from a ministry buying ballpoint pens for $85 each and probes into multi-million dollar government contract awards. It has angered Kenyans, even though they are long used to corruption sagas where top officials never seem to be convicted.
When he was finance minister Kenyatta tried to address ostentation among officials, demanding they use smaller cars but there has been little lasting impact.
"The sheer humility of the Pope, the simplicity of his message, I fear may be lost on the most rapacious elite on this side of Africa," John Githongo, Kenya's former anti-graft tsar and now an outspoken anti-corruption activist, said.
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