Travel Advisories And Warnings

Travel Advisories And Warnings:

The latest advice from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO):

FCDO advises against ‘all travel’

• Afghanistan
• Belarus
• Haiti
• Iran
• Russia
• South Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen

FCDO advises against ‘all travel’ to parts

• Algeria: areas within 30km of Algeria’s borders with Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Tunisia.
• Armenia: areas within 5km of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
• Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabah, the districts of Zengilan, Jabrayil, Qubadli, Lachin and Kelbajar on the Azerbaijan-Armenia border. The western areas of Khojavand, Fuzuli and Aghdam. Any travel within the 5km border with Armenia.
• Burundi: Cibitoke and Bubanza provinces, Kayanza Province, Melchior Ndadaye International Airport to Cibitoke, Bujumbura Rural Province.
• Benin: Northern border regions, Eastern Benin.
• Burkina Faso: everywhere apart from the capital, Ouagadougou, where it advises against all but essential travel.
• Chad: Borkou, Ennedi Ouest, Ennedi Est and Tibesti provinces, Kanem Province, including Nokou, Lake Chad region, within 30km of all Chad’s other borders. The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the rest of Chad.
• Côte d’Ivoire: borders with Burkina Faso and Mali, Côte d’Ivoire-Liberia border.
• Cameroon: Bakassi Peninsula, borders with Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, the Far-North, North-West, North, South-West and Adamawa regions, Limbé and Maroua.
Central African Republic: against all travel except to the capital, Bangui.
• Congo: some distrcits in Pool region, border with Central African Republic in Likouala region, Mouyondzi District in Bouenza region.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: border with Central African Republic, Eastern DRC, areas in the Kinshasa Province, Kwamouth territory of Mai-Ndombe Province, Kasaï Oriental, Kasaï, Kasaï Central
• Djibouti: border with Eritrea.
• Eritrea: within 25km of Eritrea’s land borders.
• Egypt: border with Libya, North Sinai, northern part of South Sinai, Western Desert, Hala’ib Triangle and Bir Tawil Trapezoid, Eastern part of Ismailiyah Governorate.
• Ethiopia: border areas, Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Gambela, Oromia, Somali, Central, Southern, Sidama, South West and Benishangul-Gumuz regions.
• Georgia: South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
• Indonesia: Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, East Nusa Tenggara, Mount Sinabung, North Sumatra, Mount Marapi, West Sumatra, Mount Semeru, East Java, Mount Ruang, Northern Sulawesi, Mount Ibu, North Maluku.
• Iraq: Federal Iraq (see FCDO website for specific areas).
• Israel: Gaza border and Northern Israel.
• India: border with Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur.
• Jordan: border with Syria.
• Lebanon: areas in Beirut and Mount Lebanon Governorate, the South and Nabatiyeh Governorates, the Beqaa Governorate, the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, the Akkar Governorate, the city of Tripoli and Palestinian refugee camps.
• Libya: all travel except for the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata.
• Myanmar: States of Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Mon, Rakhine, Shan, regions of North Mandalay and East of the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway in Bago region
• Mali: all travel except to Bamako.
• Mauritania: Eastern Mauritania, borders with Mali and Western Sahara, Tiris Zemmour, Adrar, Tagant, Hodh el Gharbi, Assaba, Gorgol and Guidimaka provinces.
• Moldova: Transnistria.
• Mozambique: Cabo Delgado, all but essential travel to the rest of Mozambique.
• Nigeria: areas of North East, North West, South East and South Nigeria.
• Niger: everywhere except Niamey.
• Pakistan: border with Afghanistan, provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh, and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
• The Occupied Palestinian Territories: Gaza, areas near Gaza, the West Bank
• Philippines: Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago.
• Saudi Arabia: border with Yemen and Abha International Airport.
• Somalia: Eastern and Western Somaliland.
• Sudan: everywhere apart from Hala’ib Triangle and the Bir Tawil Trapezoid, where all but essential travel is advised.
• Tunisia: Western Tunisia
• Togo: border with Burkina Faso.
• Turkey: border with Syria.
• Ukraine: Crimea, within 50km of Belarus, everywhere else in Ukraine.
• Venezuela: within 80km of the border with Colombia, within 40km of the border with Brazil, Zulia state.
• Western Sahara: areas within 30km north and west of ‘the Berm’ boundary line, and areas in the territory south and east ‘the Berm’ boundary line

FCDO advises against ‘all but essential travel’

• Mayotte
• New Caledonia
• North Korea

FCDO advises against ‘all but essential’ travel to parts

• Angola: Cabinda Province (except Cabinda city), areas within 1km of the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in Linda Norte (except for official border crossings and their access roads).
• Bangladesh: Chittagong Hill Tracts.
• Bolivia: Chapare region.
• Brazil: Amazonas State.
• Burundi: Rusizi National Park.
• Colombia: the Pacific Coast, northern Colombia, the borders with Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, southern Colombia and central Colombia.
• Ecuador: coastal region, areas within 20km of the border with Colombia.
• Eswatini: the border with Mozambique
• Ghana: Bawku Municipality.
• Guatemala: within 5km of the Mexican border, Santa Ana Huista, San Antonio Huista and La Democracia in the department of Huehuetenango.
• Iraq: Kurdistan Region of Iraq (see FCDO website for specific areas).
• Kenya: border with Somalia.
• Kosovo: Zvečan, Zupin Potok and Leposavic, and areas of Mitrovica north of the river Ibar.
• Laos: Xaisomboun Province.
• Mexico: States of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Jalisco, Colima, Guerrero, Chiapas.
• Myanmar: Shan State South and East, Mandalay Region, Tanintharyi Region south of Tanintharyi township, the rest of Bago region.
• Malaysia: Eastern Sabah coastal islands.
• Nigeria: North Central and the Federal Capital Territory.
• Papua New Guinea: Hela and Southern Highlands provinces
• Peru: within 20km of the Colombia border, Valley of the Apurímac, Ene, and Mantaro Rivers.
• Tanzania: within 20km of the Tanzanian border with Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique.
• Tunisia: areas north and west of Ghardimaou, within 30km of the Algeria border, Kasserine Governorate, within 10m of the Tunisia border, within 10k of Mount Mghila, Mount Orbata, Southern Tunisia
• Thailand: parts of the south, near the border with Malaysia, Hat Yai to Padang Besar train line.
• Ukraine: western Ukraine, parts further than 50km from the border with Belarus.
• Uganda: Queen Elizabeth National Park, area south-wesdt of Kasese town, Semuliki National Park.
• Venezuela: all areas apart from those listed above.

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