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23 in forceForeign ministries advise against ALL travel to Afghanistan. There is effectively no consular assistance, the kidnapping risk is severe, and no government can be counted on to help you leave: departure depends on limited commercial flights and land borders that can close without notice. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all travel to Belarus. Consular assistance is minimal, arbitrary detention has occurred, and the country is a co-belligerent in the war in Ukraine with military activity near its southern border. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all or nearly all travel to Burkina Faso. Armed groups control substantial territory across the Sahel, North, East and increasingly the southwest, kidnapping of foreigners has occurred and attacks have reached Ouagadougou. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
The US and Australia advise against ALL travel to the Central African Republic, and the UK against all travel outside Bangui and all but essential travel to the capital itself. Armed groups control substantial territory, banditry affects intercity roads and violence recurs in Bangui. The Dzanga-Sangha reserve in the southwest has stayed comparatively stable and is reached by charter or via Cameroon, but the country around it has not. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all travel to eastern DRC - North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri - where armed groups including M23 operate and Goma has changed hands. Virunga National Park has been closed to tourism since December 2024. Since May 2026 an Ebola outbreak declared a global health emergency has spread from Ituri into the Kivus, and the US and Australia advise against all travel to the whole country, Kinshasa included. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Most foreign ministries advise against ALL travel to Haiti due to gang violence, kidnapping risk and the security situation in Port-au-Prince. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active. Check your own ministry before you book - it is what your insurance follows.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to Iran. Several governments warn specifically that their dual nationals face a serious risk of arbitrary arrest and detention, and consular access to dual nationals is routinely refused. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to Iraq, the Kurdistan Region included, with parts of several governorates at the stricter level. Iranian strikes have reached the Kurdistan Region in 2026, and unexploded ordnance, kidnapping risk and militia attacks on foreign and Western targets are the standing concerns. Read the advisory by governorate rather than by country.
Foreign ministries advise against travel to southern Lebanon, the Beqaa valley and the Syrian border areas, and several advise against all travel to the country given the risk of rapid escalation. Beirut and the coast are visited, but the security picture can change within hours.
Most foreign ministries advise against ALL travel to Libya. Rival administrations control different parts of the country, militia checkpoints are widespread, kidnapping of foreigners has occurred and unexploded ordnance remains in former front-line areas. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active. Ordinary travel insurance will not cover a country under an against-all-travel advisory.
Foreign ministries advise against ALL travel to Mali. Jihadist groups control or contest large areas of the north and centre, kidnapping of foreigners is a severe risk, improvised explosive devices are used on rural roads and attacks have reached Bamako. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to Myanmar. Armed conflict affects large parts of the country, conscription applies to some residents, and overland borders open and close without notice. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against ALL travel to Niger. Armed groups operate in Tillabéri, Diffa and across the Malian and Nigerian borders, kidnapping of foreigners has occurred within an hour of the capital, and the 2023 coup left regional arrangements and consular capacity unsettled. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to North Korea. Independent travel does not exist, detentions have been arbitrary and prolonged, and some passports are barred from entry outright. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against travel to Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the areas near the Afghan and Indian borders. The rest of the country - Islamabad, Lahore, the Karakoram Highway in season - is visited routinely, so read the regional detail rather than the headline.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to Russia. Consular assistance is severely limited for many nationalities, dual nationals face conscription and exit risks, airspace closures make routing difficult, and arbitrary detention of foreign nationals has occurred. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against ALL travel to south-central Somalia, including Mogadishu, where al-Shabaab attacks occur regularly and there is effectively no consular assistance. Somaliland in the northwest issues its own visas, has been comparatively stable since 1991 and does receive visitors - an armed police escort is legally required outside Hargeisa. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all or all-but-essential travel to South Sudan. The 2018 peace agreement remains fragile, intercommunal violence and cattle raiding continue in several states, and armed banditry affects intercity roads. Photography without a permit has led to detention. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Sudan has been at war since April 2023 between the army and the Rapid Support Forces. Foreign ministries advise against ALL travel, most embassies have suspended operations, Khartoum's airport has reopened only to limited flights and has been hit by drones, and famine has been declared in parts of Darfur. There is no consular assistance inside the country. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Foreign ministries advise against all travel to Syria. Fourteen years of war have left unexploded ordnance and mine contamination across much of the country, the security situation after the 2024 change of government remains unsettled, and consular assistance is minimal to nonexistent. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Ukraine is at war. Foreign ministries advise against all travel to the country, and against all travel to the eastern and southern oblasts and any area near the front line or the Russian and Belarusian borders. Missile and drone strikes reach cities far from the front, including Kyiv and Lviv, and air-raid alerts are a daily feature of life. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
Several foreign ministries advise against non-essential travel to Venezuela (supply constraints, security risks, limited consular assistance). Verify current advisories before planning. Check your own ministry before you book - it is what your insurance follows.
Foreign ministries advise against all travel to Yemen. The country is in an ongoing armed conflict and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises, with kidnapping risk, landmine contamination and no meaningful consular assistance. Standard scores are suspended while this alert is active.
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