The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has added eight more countries to its list of destinations “too dangerous” for British citizens to travel to, bringing the total number of “prohibited” countries and locations to 24. manchester evening news the report said.
Alerts issued also cover a range of threats to visitor safety, such as crime, war, terrorism, disease, weather conditions and natural disasters.
New locations added to the list are countries currently involved in conflicts, such as Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, Israel, Belarus and the Palestinian territories.
Countries on the blacklist include Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, North Korea, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. .
In addition to the blacklist, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also issued a red list, where travel should be avoided “unless absolutely necessary”.
The red list includes:
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- ivory coast
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Laos
- Malaysia
- mauritania
- Mexico
- moldova
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Myanmar)
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- papua new guinea
- the Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tunisia
- turkey
- Uzbekistan
- western sahara desert
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