Tanzania, Aug. 2 -- Arusha. Kenya and Tanzania moved yesterday to calm mounting anxiety over a standoff on each other's airspace use apparently arising from the management of the coronavirus pandemic.
Regional analysts are worried that the fresh tit-for-tat between the two countries would undermine the already battered travel industry in dire need of urgent revival.
Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) on Friday pulled a fast on Kenya, announcing the cancellation of the licence for the country's national carrier, KQ, to operate flights to Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. This was in retaliation to an earlier move by Kenya to leave Tanzania out of a list of countries allowed to fly into its territory from yester- day as a measu...