Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jomo-kenyatta-international-airport/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/jomo-kenyatta-international-airport/ 32 32 Six million surgical masks have gone missing at Kenyan airport https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/six-million-surgical-masks-have-gone-missing-at-kenyan-airport/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/six-million-surgical-masks-have-gone-missing-at-kenyan-airport/ German authorities are looking for six million protective masks they say have gone missing in Kenya. The airports authority say the masks never arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the German claim is fake news. It isn’t clear why the masks, produced by a German manufacturer, were sent to the German army via Kenya. […]

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]]> German authorities are looking for six million protective masks they say have gone missing in Kenya.

The airports authority say the masks never arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the German claim is fake news.

It isn’t clear why the masks, produced by a German manufacturer, were sent to the German army via Kenya.

The German government has not paid any money in the transaction.

The German authorities are investigating whether this was theft at the Kenyan airport or the manufacturer deciding it was more profitable to sell the masks elsewhere.

The Kenyan Health Ministry has refused to comment on the missing equipment.

The COVID19 pandemic has made protective masks a valuable commodity traded like rare spices or minerals.

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]]> Macron safari to the Horn and East Africa https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/macron-safari-to-the-horn-and-east-africa/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/macron-safari-to-the-horn-and-east-africa/ French President attends the UN environment summit in Nairobi at the end of  a three-nation  safari of the Horn and East Africa. He told reporters that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decision not to run again has opened a new chapter of Algerian history. President Emmanuel Macron is the first French President to visit Djibouti since Nicolas […]

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]]> French President attends the UN environment summit in Nairobi at the end of  a three-nation  safari of the Horn and East Africa.

He told reporters that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decision not to run again has opened a new chapter of Algerian history.

President Emmanuel Macron is the first French President to visit Djibouti since Nicolas Sarkozy was there nine years ago.

He is looking to counter the growing Chinese influence in the Horn. The People’s Liberation Army has China’s first foreign military base in Djibouti.

Macron met Ethiopia’s reformist prime minister and regional peace broker Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.

In Kenya, he’ll talk to President Uhuru Kenyatta about infrastructural developments including the commuter rail link between the capital and the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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