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    June 14, 2011

Eritrea Volcano Disrupts East Africa Air Travel

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   A natural-color image released by NASA shows plumes billowing from
   Nabro volcano in Eritrea on June 13, 2011
   Photo: AFP
   A natural-color image released by NASA shows plumes billowing from
   Nabro volcano in Eritrea on June 13, 2011

   The ash cloud from an erupting volcano in Eritrea is disrupting air
   travel in parts of East Africa.
   Officials with Ethiopian Airlines says the company canceled flights to
   Djibouti, northern Ethiopia and the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on
   Tuesday.
   Earlier, Germany's Lufthansa canceled a flight from Eritrea's capital,
   Asmara, and a flight from Frankfurt to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
   An agency that monitors volcanoes for the aviation industry says the
   Nabro volcano continued to erupt Tuesday, pushing dust into the
   atmosphere.
   Initially, the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center said it was the nearby
   Dubbi volcano that had erupted.
   Both volcanos are located in the East African Rift Valley region near
   Eritrea's border with Djibouti.
   The eruption follows a series of medium-sized earthquakes that struck
   the Eritrea and Ethiopia region on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey
   says the biggest quake had a magnitude of 5.7.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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