{"meta":{"endpoint":"https://eahospitalitypulse.com/api/v1/advisories.json","description":"Travel advisory levels for East African markets from issuing governments.","source":"Official government travel advisory pages. Always verify against the issuing source before acting.","generated":"2026-09-27T14:54:59Z","publisher":"EA Hospitality Pulse","docs":"https://eahospitalitypulse.com/api","methodology":"https://eahospitalitypulse.com/methodology","licence":"Free for reasonable use with attribution to EA Hospitality Pulse and a link to https://eahospitalitypulse.com. Do not resell or repackage as a competing data product. See https://eahospitalitypulse.com/terms","version":"v1"},"data":{"updated":"26 September 2026 (evening — NO US OR UK LEVEL, GEOGRAPHY OR REVISION-DATE CHANGE on any of the five markets. Evening tier-A sweep asserted complete: 18 SOURCES, EXIT 0. Read directly tonight: UK FCDO Kenya (still current 25 Sep, last updated 4 Sep), Uganda (2 Sep), Tanzania (19 May), Rwanda (4 Sep); US travel.state.gov Kenya Level 2 (issued 28 Jul) and Uganda Level 4 (issued 4 Jun) unchanged; Canada Kenya (editorial change only); Germany Kenya (Stand 26.09.2026, unchanged since 25.08.2026). FRANCE KENYA CHANGED 25 SEP: the Sécurité page and zone map were re-dated 25/09/2026 (previous map 10/03/2026) and LAMU AND MANDA ISLANDS MOVED FROM ORANGE TO YELLOW (vigilance renforcée, air access only); mainland Lamu and the 100km Somalia-border strip stay red; Nairobi's Eastleigh, Pangani, Kibera and Mathare are orange. NEIGHBOUR: UK FCDO ETHIOPIA updated 24 Sep (all travel within 50km of the Tigray boundary and 20km of Eritrea in Afar, all-but-essential rest of Afar; Tigray and Amhara all-travel; Addis corridors carved out); US Embassy Addis 25 Sep: do not travel to Amhara incl. Lalibela, Tigray or Afar 'for any reason'. HEALTH: WHO DON618 (25 Sep): DRC 7,890 confirmed / 3,799 deaths to 23 Sep, seventh province Sud Ubangi, North Kivu CFR 59.7%, bordering-country risk high; Uganda outbreak closed (20 cases); Rwanda's 22 May DRC entry bar unrevised. US Embassy Nairobi 25 Sep alert: possible breach of Ebola-screening traveller data at Kenyan ports of entry. The US Title 42 order (91 FR 58673) is unchanged: comments close 1 October, order lapses 11 October 16:59 EDT. Canada's Ebola border measures lapse 28 September; P198 open.)","rows":[{"code":"KE","name":"Kenya","flag":"🇰🇪","us":{"level":2,"note":"Terrorism, crime, kidnapping, unrest, health and 'Other'. Country level unchanged at 2. Re-issued 28 July 2026 (rendered page carries 'Date issued: July 28, 2026', verified 12 Aug 2026) — the 'Other (O)' indicator was added and the Nairobi neighbourhoods of EASTLEIGH and KIBERA are now LEVEL 4 DO NOT TRAVEL (crime, kidnapping), corrected from our earlier Level 3 reading. Also Level 4: Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, Lamu, Tana River (except Tsavo NP), Kilifi north of the C103 and coastal areas north of Malindi; West Pokot and western Turkana; Marsabit and Turkana within 50km of Ethiopia. Nairobi hotel corridors (Westlands, Upper Hill, Gigiri, CBD, Karen), Diani and Watamu are not in any Level 4 area."},"uk":{"level":2,"note":"Against travel to the Kenya–Somalia border and parts of Lamu/north coast; core safari & coast areas unaffected. HEALTH LAYER (separate from the advisory): three G7 governments now carry a dengue notice on Kenya naming the COAST — US Embassy Nairobi health alert 3 Aug 2026 (coast, Wajir, Garissa); Germany 3 Aug 2026; CANADA added Kenya to Travel Health Notice 517 on 8 Sep 2026. Canada’s notice is Level 1 — practise health precautions — and did NOT change any country risk level. Kenya MoH: 1,678 dengue cases and 5 suspected deaths in Garissa and Wajir as at 26 Aug 2026 (1,276 in Dadaab), PHEOC activated; separately Mombasa recorded 3,989 cases Jan–May 2026 (Health CS Aden Duale via The Standard). The UK has NOT added a dengue line to its Kenya health page as at 9 Sep 2026."}},{"code":"UG","name":"Uganda","flag":"🇺🇬","us":{"level":4,"note":"Do not travel — VERIFIED against travel.state.gov 3 Sep 2026. Date issued 4 June 2026; indicators Crime, Health, Terrorism, Unrest. Advisory history states Uganda was raised from Level 3 to Level 4 on 17 May 2026 'due to the Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in Ituri Province in the DRC'. The page still describes Kampala mass-gathering restrictions, 21-day quarantine for DRC arrivals and the DRC border closure. NOT UPDATED since 4 June — 91 days — despite Uganda MoH declaring the outbreak over on 28 Jul 2026 and WHO declaring the end on 27 Aug 2026. State's own text links to a CDC travel health notice filed under a Level 2 path. Divergence with the UK (Level 1) is now two full levels."},"uk":{"level":1,"note":"CORRECTED 28 Aug 2026 — the UK advises against travel to NO part of Uganda. We carried 'against all-but-essential travel to Queen Elizabeth & Semuliki NP' for nine months after the FCDO lifted it on 2 December 2025. Verified against gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/uganda and its Regional risks page, 28 Aug 2026: still current at 25 Aug 2026, updated 27 Jul 2026, and the Warnings page carries no advice-against-travel block at all. Every 'advises against all travel' line on the Regional risks page refers to the DRC and South Sudan, NOT Uganda. Western Uganda carries caution language only (ADF, Kasese/Bundibugyo attacks Nov 2025). Bwindi and Mgahinga are open; armed escort on gorilla tracking is described as routine practice, not a warning. NOTE: mandatory National Cleaning Day, final Saturday monthly 07:00-10:00, nationwide movement restriction — tourists exempt (Uganda Police, 24 Aug 2026)."}},{"code":"TZ","name":"Tanzania","flag":"🇹🇿","us":{"level":3,"note":"Reconsider travel — RAISED from Level 2 to 3 on 31 Oct 2025 ('unrest' indicator added). Grounds: unrest, crime, terrorism (highest risk in the Mtwara Region near the Mozambique border), and targeting of gay & lesbian individuals. Verified vs travel.state.gov 4 Aug 2026."},"uk":{"level":1,"note":"No advisory against travel except within 20km of the Mozambique (Cabo Delgado) border."}},{"code":"ZNZ","name":"Zanzibar","flag":"🇹🇿","us":{"level":3,"note":"As mainland Tanzania (Level 3 since 31 Oct 2025); no Zanzibar-specific carve-out. Verified 4 Aug 2026."},"uk":{"level":1,"note":"No advisory against travel."}},{"code":"RW","name":"Rwanda","flag":"🇷🇼","us":{"level":3,"note":"Reconsider travel — regional Ebola risk and DRC border security."},"uk":{"level":2,"note":"CORRECTED 8 Sep 2026 — the FCDO advice-against area is PARTS OF RUSIZI DISTRICT ONLY: the parts within 10km of the DRC border, including the Rwandan islands in Lake Kivu and Kamembe Airport. RUBAVU IS NOT NAMED. We carried 'Rubavu, Rusizi' and were overstating it — Gisenyi/Rubavu on Lake Kivu carries no advice against travel, and Kigali, Musanze/Volcanoes, Nyungwe and Akagera are all outside the advice-against area. Verified by reading gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/rwanda/entry-requirements directly on 8 Sep 2026; the page's own public-updated-at is 4 Sep 2026 10:15 BST. ENTRY RULE, separate from the advisory: Rwanda denies entry to any foreign national who has travelled to or transited through the DRC in the 30 days before travel, and runs enhanced screening at Kigali International Airport and DRC land crossings (Rwanda MoH notice, 22 May 2026; FCDO links to RBC for it). Commonwealth citizens get a free 30-day visa on arrival."}}],"links":{"us":{"KE":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/kenya-travel-advisory.html","UG":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/uganda-travel-advisory.html","TZ":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/tanzania-travel-advisory.html","ZNZ":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/tanzania-travel-advisory.html","RW":"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/rwanda-travel-advisory.html"},"uk":{"KE":"https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/kenya","UG":"https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/uganda","TZ":"https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/tanzania","ZNZ":"https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/tanzania","RW":"https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/rwanda"}}}}