Tanzania Issues Travel Advisories To Kenya

Insecurity has been for the past months been the talk in Kenya, an issue that has resulted to the issuing of travel advisory from the government of Tanzania. The government cautioned that it could not guarantee security for the wildebeests anticipated to migrate to Maasai Mara Game Reserve from Serengeti National Park. The migration of the wildebeests happens seasonally as they search for pastures.

The government of Tanzania claimed that there are substantial security threats that Kenya faces, and they had no other choice but to consider protecting the lives of the citizens. The move is likely to affect the relationship between the two countries, particularly since Kenya and Tanzania have been involved in unending trade disputes and some kind of regional supremacy war.

If a retaliatory act follows every trade dispute and this always holds, then the measures to be taken by Kenya are pretty obvious besides the favour. It’s most likely that Kenya might get back by issuing retaliatory travel advisories which will inevitably lead to urging of stray dogs to cross the Tanzanian border for bones and squirrels to scavenge for nuts to do so at their own risk.

It’s not only the Tanzanian government that has issued travel advisories within the East African region. The Ethiopian and Uganda governments have also issued travel advisories that are “sector-specific. For Uganda, the travel advisory warns specifically their very own citizens who are involved in cattle rustling across the border. They are advised not to cross to the Kenyan side for they might endanger their lives.

In the case of Ethiopia, they have issued a travel warning specifically to Oromo Liberation Front asking them to keep away from the Kenyan border over security issues.