Kenya has threatened to impose a total ban on flights from Somalia including those on humanitarian missions.
The foreign affairs ministry said in a letter to diplomatic missions that humanitarian flights were being misused for bilateral and political matters even after Kenya had suspended flights.
Kenya had recently suspended flights from the neighbouring country but exempted medical emergency evacuation flights and those on UN humanitarian missions. But it now warns that humanitarian flights must strictly be used for humanitarian purposes to avoid a possible declaration by the government of Kenya of a full lockdown on all flights.
The ministry has also required all humanitarian flights to seek clearance first and provide a list of passengers as well as the goods to be transported.
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