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Tanzania ramps up retaliatory bans on Kenyan airlines

The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) has extended its ban on Kenyan airlines to include Fly540 (5H, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta), Safarilink Aviation (F2, Nairobi Wilson), and Airkenya (P2, Nairobi Wilson) as the row over COVID-19-related entry policies escalates, Tanzanian daily The Citizen has reported.

TCAA Director General Hamza Johari confirmed that the ban would not be lifted until Kenya adds Tanzania to its list of countries whose citizens are exempted from quarantine on arrival in Kenya. The Tanzanians have perceived the inclusion of their country on the mandatory quarantine list as unfair given that more than 100 countries have already been removed from it.

Authorities in Dodoma banned Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) from operating to Tanzania on August 1 and remains so despite diplomatic and business overtures.

While Kenya Airways flew mostly from Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta to Dar es Salaam, in addition to less frequent services to Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar, the newly banned airlines focus on the latter markets.

According to the...

South Sudan reopens Juba airport

The Government of South Sudan reopened Juba airport and its airspace to scheduled international flights in early July, the BBC has reported.

"Our air space is now open. We have no restrictions on the airlines. But whoever is coming into the country from outside, whether he or she is a foreigner or a South Sudanese national, must provide a health certificate and must self-quarantine for 14 days," director-general of the airport Kur Kuol said on July 9, 2020.

Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows that Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) has been flying to Juba since July 5, while EgyptAir (MS, Cairo Int'l) resumed operations to South Sudan already on July 3. flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int'l) and Badr Airlines (J4, Khartoum) have also restarted operations to Juba, while Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta), RwandAir (WB, Kigali), and Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala) have yet to do so.

Besides obligatory quarantine and testing, South Sudan requires all passengers to wear face masks and gloves throughout...

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