AMMAN: Jordan’s flag carrier Royal Jordanian has suspended flights to Beirut on Monday and Tuesday, Jordanian Television reported, citing a statement from the airline on Monday.
The airline said it was continuing to evaluate flights scheduled for Tuesday.
The move came as tensions escalated between Israel and the armed political group Hezbollah after a strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 children and teenagers.
The Jordanian foreign ministry called on its citizens to avoid travelling to Lebanon in a statement later on Monday.
The statement also urged Jordanian citizens in Lebanon to exercise the utmost caution and stay away from areas of tension.
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Airline Royal Jordanian suspends flights to Beirut Monday and Tuesday, TV says
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Airline Royal Jordanian suspends flights to Beirut Monday and Tuesday, TV says
- The Jordanian foreign ministry called on its citizens to avoid travelling to Lebanon in a statement on Monday
- The statement also urged Jordanian citizens in Lebanon to exercise the utmost caution and stay away from areas of tension
Trump offers to mediate Egypt-Ethiopia dispute on Nile River waters
- Egypt says the dam violates international treaties and could cause both droughts and flooding, a claim Ethiopia rejects
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump offered on Friday to mediate a dispute over Nile River waters between Egypt and Ethiopia. “I am ready to restart US mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia to responsibly resolve the question of ‘The Nile Water Sharing’ once and for all,” he wrote to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in a letter that also was posted on Trump’s Truth Social account.
Addis Ababa’s September 9 inauguration of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of anger in Cairo, which is downstream on the Nile.
Ethiopia, the continent’s second-most populous nation with more than 120 million people, sees the $5 billion dam on a tributary of the Nile as central to its economic ambitions.
Egypt says the dam violates international treaties and could cause both droughts and flooding, a claim Ethiopia rejects.
Trump has praised El-Sisi in the past, including during an October trip to Egypt to sign a deal related to the Gaza conflict. In public comments, Trump has echoed Cairo’s concerns about the water issue.
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