Kenya travel warning lifted
The Foreign Office has lifted its warning against non-essential travel to Kenya.
In a related move the Department for Transport has written to British airlines to inform them that the ban on British carriers flying to Nairobi has also been lifted.
The dual announcement follows the suspension of all flights between the UK and Kenya last month because of specific threats to British planes.
Despite today’s decision, the Foreign Office insists that a high threat from terrorism continues to exist in Kenya and urges all British nationals to remain vigilant at all times.
Fears of terror attacks in Kenya increased after an attempt to shoot down a plane carrying Israeli tourists near Mombassa last November was swiftly followed by a suicide bomb attack on the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in the same area, which killed 15 people.
And rumours arose last month about the presence of al-Qaeda operatives in the country following suggestions that one of the FBI’s most wanted al-Qaeda suspects, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, had returned to Kenya.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is accused of playing a key role in both the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi and the suicide bombing at the Paradise Hotel.
