Failing diplomacy

Mwalimu-G

Mwalimu-G

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Tanzania bans KQ flights between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam
The decision will take effect from January 22, 2024.
In Summary
  • The decision was reached at after Kenya aeronautical authorities allegedly refused Tanzania's request for all-cargo flight operations by Air Tanzania Company Limited.
Kenya Airways planes at JKIA.
Kenya Airways planes at JKIA.
Image: FILE
The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority has banned the operation of flights between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
In a statement on Monday, the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority Director General Hamza Johari said that the flights have been banned under Third and Fourth Freedom Traffic Rights with effect from January 22, 2024.
Johari said the decision was reached at after Kenya aeronautical authorities refused Tanzania's request for all-cargo flight operations by Air Tanzania Company Limited.

"Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority, on behalf of the aeronautical authorities of the United Republic of Tanzania, has decided to rescind the approvals for Kenya Airways (KQ) to operate passenger flights between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam under Third and Forth Freedom Traffic Rights with effect from 22 January 2024," the statement read.

According to Johari, there shall be no passenger flights by KQ between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam from January 22, 2024.
"This is to reciprocate the decision by the aeronautical authorities of the Republic of Kenya to refuse the Tanzanian request for all-cargo flight operations by Air Tanzania Company Limited under Fifth Freedom Traffic Rights between Nairobi and Third countries, contrary to Section 4 of the Memorandum of Understanding on Air Services, between Tanzania and Kenya signed on November 24, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya."



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Ruto To Meet Museveni In Bid To Settle Ongoing Oil Deal Tiff
By Moses Kinyanjui Published on: January 15, 2024 12:02 (EAT)
Ruto to meet Museveni in bid to settle ongoing oil deal tiff

File image of President William Ruto and his Ugandan counterpart during a previous function. PHOTO | COURTESY

President William Ruto is set to meet Uganda President Yoweri Museveni to iron out their diplomatic tiff, East African Community, ASALs, and Regional Development Cabinet Secretary Peninah Malonza has stated.

Malonza said that the two Heads of State have scheduled a sit down after Kenya blocked Uganda from using the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) infrastructure to move its refined petroleum products from the Mombasa port to Uganda under a new arrangement as directed by Uganda’s Cabinet.
"There is a scheduled meeting between the two presidents to discuss the impasse and Kenya will also seek to explain its position at the next East Africa Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit," Malonza told journalists as quoted by Daily Nation.
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She further dismissed fears that the trade standoff might pose a threat to fostering diplomatic ties between the two nations, expressing confidence that the meeting will yield positive resolutions.
"There is no cause for alarm because such trade disagreements are normal. Each country is founded on different laws and principles, that is why we deal with each other based on the binding treaties and other diplomatic protocols," she said.
"Uganda is not only Kenya's trading partner. It is also the largest market for Kenyan oil, Nairobi and Kampala have coexisted very well since independence and both countries value each other's economic potential."
In November last year, Uganda cut its oil deals with Kenya citing that they have been sourcing oil products from middlemen in Kenya at exorbitant prices which exacerbated the country's fuel crisis.
"Without my knowledge, our wonderful people, were buying this huge quantity of petroleum products from middlemen in Kenya," Museveni wrote on X.
"A whole country buying from middlemen in Kenya or anywhere else!! Amazing but true."
Uganda imports more than 90% of its petroleum products through the Port of Mombasa in Kenya and the rest through the Dar es Salaam port in Tanzania.
The importation was done independently by the licensed Ugandan Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) however through the importation structures in Kenya and Tanzania.
Come January 2, 2024, Uganda sued Kenya for denying its entity, the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC), rights to operate as an Oil Marketing Company (0MC) in Kenya.
Through the UNOC, Uganda had sought to move fuel products through Kenya Pipeline but was directed to register as an oil marketer in Kenya by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) to use the pipeline.
EPRA had asked UNOC to fulfill several requirements, among them; business registration certificates, identification documents for all directors, work permits, tax compliance certificate, proof of financial capability including proof of sales volumes of 6.6 million litres of super petrol/gasoil or A1jet or kerosene in Kenya, evidence of operating five licensed retail stations and operating a licensed depot with a turnover of USD 10 million over the last three years.
UNOC could not provide all the required documents and found some of the requirements a burden, arguing that it was a fully State-owned company in Uganda that only sought to transport the products through Kenya and had no intention of doing business in Kenya.
Uganda has now taken the case to the East Africa Court of Justice (EACJ), holding Kenya’s government responsible for this delay in granting exemptions to operate without EPRA's requirements.
 
Tz throwing a fit, yaani they walk back 3rd & 4th freedoms coz they were denied 5th, does Kenya have 5th freedom rights in Tz?
They know the advantage they have over tourist traffic, so they are presssing
But on the other hand does giving them 5th impact Kq sana, does the emirates that comes to eldoret leave with cargo ama huwa kuleta tu?
 
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shocks said:
Tz throwing a fit, yaani they walk back 3rd & 4th freedoms coz they were denied 5th, does Kenya have 5th freedom rights in Tz?
They know the advantage they have over tourist traffic, so they are presssing
But on the other hand does giving them 5th impact Kq sana, does the emirates that comes to eldoret leave with cargo ama huwa kuleta tu?
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They bought their first cargo plane in June last year and I guess they wanted to be allowed to be collecting mzigo wa kujaza Nairobi. Jamaa wetu wamefanya ile kitu walifanya UNOC.
 
shocks said:
Tz throwing a fit, yaani they walk back 3rd & 4th freedoms coz they were denied 5th, does Kenya have 5th freedom rights in Tz?
They know the advantage they have over tourist traffic, so they are presssing
But on the other hand does giving them 5th impact Kq sana, does the emirates that comes to eldoret leave with cargo ama huwa kuleta tu?
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Facts.
I think they're getting cocky for no reason. Same thing happened with the Dar port which ended up overstretched with delays while Mombasa got a record number of vessels in December 2023.
Also, they banned our tour vehicles from TZ and we had to reciprocate. They're so petty, it's insane.
 
mzeiya said:
Facts.
I think they're getting cocky for no reason. Same thing happened with the Dar port which ended up overstretched with delays while Mombasa got a record number of vessels in December 2023.
Also, they banned our tour vehicles from TZ and we had to reciprocate. They're so petty, it's insane.
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But on this one I am with them. Kama tunafanya biashara kwao tuwakubalie wafungue kibanda huku pia.
 
Mwalimu-G said:
But on this one I am with them. Kama tunafanya biashara kwao tuwakubalie wafungue kibanda huku pia.
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They want more privilege than they've given us despite the fact that they need us more in terms of NBO being a more desirable airline hub than DAR. If not, will their passengers choose to fly via Addis or their BFF, Jo'burg?
Also, for flights to 🇹🇿, KQ already has code-sharing agreements with Precision Air.
 
mzeiya said:
They want more privilege than they've given us despite the fact that they need us more in terms of NBO being a more desirable airline hub than DAR. If not, will their passengers choose to fly via Addis or their BFF, Jo'burg?
Also, for flights to 🇹🇿, KQ already has code-sharing agreements with Precision Air.
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Yes, hapa wamecheza chafu. The strong hand they are playing is they know they have tourist traffic that comes thru NBO, so wakifunga 3rd and 4th for kq their tourists will be forced to come thru Dubai / Addis. In their calculus they are are betting on Kq loosing more revenue than their tourism industry when one airline route is closed. At some point we have to stand firm to hii utoto, would they pull such a stunt on Emirates or Ethiopian? Are we are too desperate for that 1 route? Yetu macho
 

We caved in to threats, what this teaches Tz is if they want anything from Kenya its those 33 weekly flights they will threaten us with. Suluhu akitaka kukojoa ndakaini guess what leverage they will use....
 
We seem to not control any narrative these days. I wish the information could have been relayed by a junior officer at least...saa zingine you don't have to plaster your statement even though you did the lobbying.
 
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