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Tourists return to Lamu as travel ban is lifted

Visitors enjoy a boat ride at Lamu Island waters in January, 2017. Tourists are now flocking the Island after travel advisory was lifted. (Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/Standard)

Tourists are trickling back to Lamu days after the British government withdrew a travel advisory against the picturesque island.

The advisory, which had been in existence for more than five years, came as a result of insecurity from constant terror attacks and kidnapping of tourists by suspected Al Shabaab militias.

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