Ethiopian Airlines adds Sudan service

Ethiopian Airlines adds Sudan service
Posted Mon, 30 Oct 2006

Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Airlines announced that it would launch direct flights to Southern Sudan capital Juba, from November 16 following increased demand for its services in that country.

"The new service has been carefully designed to provide business travellers to and from Juba a direct link to Addis Ababa with convenient connections to the rest of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and vice-versa," the airline's public relations department said.

As Southern Sudan emerges from a long civil war, Ethiopian Airline's flights to Juba were expected to bring that area closer to the world and also boost economic partnerships.

Located on the banks of the White Nile, Juba was Sudan's second most populated city with over 160 000 inhabitants.

The Addis Ababa-Juba flights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with 111 passenger-capacity Boeing 737-200 aircraft, would bring Ethiopian Airline's total destinations in Africa to 29 and 47 worldwide.

Meanwhile, the airline has also announced plans to increase its services in Africa from October 29 with 11 weekly flights to Lagos, eight to Accra, daily to Khartoum and Johannesburg, six times to Dakar, five times to N'djamena and four times to Lome.

Two daily flights to Dubai were also to be introduced on the same day. -panapress

Vaccine recommendations For ethiopian Travel

Region: Africa



Vaccine recommendations for Ethiopian Travel

 

Disease
Recommendation
When to see a doctor
Typhoid
Vaccination recommended
10 days before travel
Hepatitis A
Vaccination recommended
2 weeks before travel
Diphtheria
Vaccination recommended
3 months before travel
Tuberculosis
*Vaccination sometimes recommended
3 months before travel
Hepatitis B
*Vaccination sometimes recommended
2 months before travel
Rabies
*Vaccination sometimes recommended
1 month before travel
Meningococcal meningitis
*Vaccination sometimes recommended
2-3 weeks before travel
Yellow fever
Vaccination recommended
10 days before travel
Japanese B encephalitis
Not required
.
Tick-borne encephalitis
Not required
.

* Recommendations that are marked "Vaccination
sometimes

recommended" should be considered as "Vaccination strongly recommended" if a


person is traveling frequently or spending extended time in that

country.



All travelers are advised to ensure that tetanus and polio

vaccinations are kept up to date.



Recommendations do change from time to time and it is important

to discuss your personal requirements with your doctor.





Malaria recommendations

 

Jet with 104 aboard crashes in Nigeria

Over 100 feared killed in Nigeria air crash
ABUJA (AFP) - More than 100 people have been feared killed when a commercial airliner crashed moments after takeoff in Nigeria's capital Abuja, official and aviation industry sources said.

"The ADC plane took off this morning from Lagos to Sokoto en route to Abuja with around 110 passengers and crew. After dropping some passengers in Abuja, it took off for Sokoto (north). Some moments after taking off, it lost control and crashed," one of the sources told AFP on Sunday.

A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the incident: "There was a crash this morning involving an ADC passenger plane. The plane crashed and burst into flames at the outskirts of Abuja. No information yet on casualties," Ibrahim Farinloye
The state-run News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said top-ranking government officials, senators, politicians, the son of one of Nigeria's former president and an influential traditional ruler, were on board.

It said a deputy governor was believed also to be on board of the ill-fated aircraft, owned by the private Nigerian airline ADC.

NAN said there were four survivors, while rescue operations were going on at the site of the crash, the latest to hit Nigeria's aviation industry in recent months.

Last month, 14 military officers, including 10 generals, were killed when their small airforce plane crashed into the hills in central Benue State.

The military officers were on their way to Obudu in southern Cross River State to attend the annual chief of army staff conference on September 17 when the Dornier 228-221, crashed into the hills of Korti in central Benue State minutes before arrival.

In December, a Sosoliso commercial jet crashed on landing in the oil city of Port Harcourt, killing all the 117 people on board.

Two months earlier, a Bellview commercial plane crashed in Lisa village, near Lagos, killing more than 100 people on board.

Nigerian President has ordered investigation into Sunday's tragegy.

"President Olusegun Obasanjo is deeply and profoundly shocked and saddened by the news of the reported air crash of an airliner in the environ of the federal capital territory today," presidential spokeswoman Oluremi Oyo said in a statement.

"The president has called for a full report and investigation into the crash. He condoled all Nigerians and especially the families and friends and associates of those who may have been on board the airline," she said