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Tanzania warning came a week later in the UK
The UK Foreign Office (FCO) has amended its travel advice for Tanzania a week after similar action by the US after a planned terrorist attack was revealed.
The FCO gave the following information: “We have received information that an international terrorist group may be planning an attack on the island of Zanzibar.”
The advice now recommends that British nationals in Tanzania, and especially in Zanzibar, be particularly vigilant in public places frequented by foreigners such as hotels, restaurants and shopping malls.
The Foreign Office is not advising against travel to the country or advising Britons to leave the country.
A similar warning came from the equivalent organisation in the US, the Department of State, but it was issued last week, on 10 January.
It read: “The Department of State has received information that a terrorist group may be planning an attack on an unspecified location frequented by Westerners on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. This may include restaurants, clubs or hotels. American citizens visiting Zanzibar or other near-by coastal locations in Tanzania are cautioned to take appropriate measures and carefully evaluate their security posture”.
In its defence the FCO stated that it makes its own decisions on how to advise travelling Britons.
The last terrorist attack in Tanzania was against the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam in August 1998, when eight people were killed. In neighbouring Kenya a car bomb attack on a hotel near Mombasa on 28 November, killed at least fifteen people, and on the same day there was a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter plane.
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