Monthly Archives: July 2011

Kenya Airways get Voluntary contribution

Kenya Airways has began to accept voluntary contributions from passengers, happy to donate ‘excess’ coins but also notes for that matter, for funding of the airline’s charitable programmes across the network. Besides Kenya, where KQ’ corporate responsibility projects have made … Continue reading

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AFRAA TARGETS MIDDLE EAST

Never shy of controversy, the last one having been sweeping allegations over the EU’s aviation black list targeting African airlines to protect their own – made days before another crash of a banned Congolese airline cost yet more lives – … Continue reading

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TURKISH ANNOUNCES APRIL 2012 FLIGHTS TO KIGALI

Yesterday Turkish Airlines announced their intention to begin flights between Istanbul and Kigali by April next year. The information was given in Kigali by the THY Chief Executive Dr. Temel Kotil when he met with President Paul Kagame. It was … Continue reading

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FOREST GIVEN OUT FOR RESTORATION

Conservationists in Rwanda and the region were both pleased as well as surprised, when the Government of Rwanda through the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Rwanda Development Board earlier in the week signed a long term agreement with UK … Continue reading

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RWANDA ‘REPATRIATES’ LOW LANDS GORILLAS TO CONGO

Six ‘low land gorillas’ impounded some time ago from poachers and smugglers, ‘flew home’ over the weekend when they were returned to their original homeland. Held in Kinigi until Saturday, where they had been looked after by gorilla conservationists from … Continue reading

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RWANDA’S FOREST CHIMPS ON RISE

The isolated chimpanzee population in Gishwati Forest, already a protected forest area and tipped to become Rwanda’s next national park, was not too long ago barely a dozen strong and showed all the hallmarks of a declining population. Rwanda’s determined … Continue reading

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FLY 540 HITS MARKET WITH LOW FARE

The adverts this week by Fly 540 Uganda, offering an all inclusive fare of US Dollars 350 between Entebbe and Mombasa, is set to ignite another round of hotly contested competition on the route to the Kenyan coast, especially in … Continue reading

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Kenya police arrests poachers

Yesterday police and other security operatives arrested a gang of poachers transporting ivory from Isiolo to Nairobi. Over 40 elephant tusks were confiscated in the operation together with the truck, as it was used in carrying illicit contraband. Three suspects … Continue reading

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Entebbe International Airport cleared for a 380 emergency diversions

The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority over the weekend released information that the airport was cleared by an inspection panel of Emirates, Dubai’s award winning airline, to serve as an emergency landing airport, following successful ‘simulations’ being carried out. It is … Continue reading

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NEW FARE WAR ON ENTEBBE – NAIROBI ROUTE

In spite of continuously high fuel prices and inflationary pressures on airlines have fares between Entebbe and Nairobi started to move again, downwards that is. According to travel agents, keenly monitoring these developments to give their clients the best possible … Continue reading

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