{"id":9632,"date":"2025-11-26T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:06:53","slug":"canada-flags-nigeria-16-african-countries-as-high-risk-in-new-travel-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/canada-flags-nigeria-16-african-countries-as-high-risk-in-new-travel-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada flags Nigeria, 16 African countries as high-risk in new travel advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<section class=\"main-content article-page\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<article>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The Government of Canada has issued a new advisory urging citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Nigeria, including the capital city, Abuja, citing an increasingly unpredictable security environment marked by terrorism, crime, armed attacks, and kidnappings.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government dropped one of its biggest travel risk updates in years, warning citizens to steer clear of 17 African countries because of spiralling insecurity, political turmoil and extremist violence.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian officials point to a perfect storm of threats: expanding extremist networks in the Sahel and Horn of Africa, a wave of military coups, communal clashes, mass protests, cross\u2011border crime, and fragile governance that leaves many states barely holding together.<\/p>\n<p>On the \u2018Avoid All Travel\u2019 hot spots, destinations are: South\u202fSudan, Burkina\u202fFaso, Central\u202fAfrican\u202fRepublic, Libya, Mali, Niger, Somalia and Sudan, while the \u2018Avoid Non\u2011Essential Travel\u2019 list includes Madagascar, Ethiopia, Burundi, Chad, Democratic\u202fRepublic\u202fof\u202fCongo, Eritrea, Mauritania, Nigeria and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory, released yesterday, highlights that while the entire country faces elevated risks, certain regions are considered so dangerous that Canadians are urged to avoid all travel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop-only border-top border-bottom \">\n<div class=\"ad-container-inner rvp_desktop_2\">\n<div id=\"rvp_desktop_2\" class=\"guardian-admanager\" data-google-query-id=\"COjtuInQj5EDFT5uFQgdDzw6Wg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"footer-link-container\">\n<div class=\"footer-link-upper\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-8 col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"footer-link-items\">\n<div class=\"links\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div id=\"monica-content-root\" class=\"monica-widget\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"_monica-theme-d2f2b383 root-container-UmvGjM markdown-font-size-provider-3KSWBx sidebar-ZRQNut\" lang=\"en\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"content-root-WCIiJJ\">\n<div class=\"window-root-ERNrXd\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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