Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Kenya's foreign minister has gone to Dubai to defuse a row after members of the Gulf state's royal family were deported as terror suspects.
The four royals were on holiday in the Kenyan resort of Mombasa over Easter, when immigration officers interrogated them for hours and expelled them.
The United Arab Emirates responded by tightening visa requirements - and only accepts Kenyan university graduates.
The ban has hit many traders, who usually buy their goods from Dubai.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula is leading a delegation of officials in the UAE, seeking to get the ban overturned.
Last week, deputy foreign minister Richard Onyonka apologised on the BBC's Swahili service for the "stupid mistake" of the officials.
Kenya's Standard newspaper reports that some 37,000 Kenyans live in the UAE, mostly Dubai.
Source: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8646155.stm.
Kenya's foreign minister has gone to Dubai to defuse a row after members of the Gulf state's royal family were deported as terror suspects.
The four royals were on holiday in the Kenyan resort of Mombasa over Easter, when immigration officers interrogated them for hours and expelled them.
The United Arab Emirates responded by tightening visa requirements - and only accepts Kenyan university graduates.
The ban has hit many traders, who usually buy their goods from Dubai.
Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula is leading a delegation of officials in the UAE, seeking to get the ban overturned.
Last week, deputy foreign minister Richard Onyonka apologised on the BBC's Swahili service for the "stupid mistake" of the officials.
Kenya's Standard newspaper reports that some 37,000 Kenyans live in the UAE, mostly Dubai.
Source: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8646155.stm.
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