Current warnings for February 2010

This item appears on page 18 of the February 2010 issue.

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 30 destinations: Mauritania, Chad, Mali, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Algeria, Colombia, Guinea, Lebanon, Côte d’Ivoire, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Kenya, Afghanistan, Burundi, Nigeria, Haiti, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Georgia, Sudan, Syria and Somalia.

For details, call the State Department at 202/647-5225 or visit http://travel.state.gov/travel/warnings.html.

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