The Kenyan government announced on Sunday (April 5) that it would extend the ban on all international flights by 30 days as the country intensified the fight against spread the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous two-week ban, implemented on March 25, expired at midnight on April 5. Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, James Macharia, said…
The fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic is being felt everywhere across the globe. Here, I speak to Alice Gully, co-owner of Aardvark Safaris, a UK-based specialist tour operator working with a range of camps and lodges across Africa. She says that the repercussions in the decline of tourism will have an enormous impact on conservation efforts in Africa.…
The Seychelles will enter a 21-day period of restricted movement of people and shutdown of essential services from midnight April 8 as part of the government’s efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19. At a press conference April 7, the Seychellois Department of Health announced these new measures, after a Seychellois man – who works as…