“More countries unsafe to travel” – Dagblad van het Noorden

Reuters | Published on May 30, 2015, 07:27

HILVERSUM – Many more countries have become more dangerous to travel. According to a comparison by NOS has made between the travel advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010 and 2015. These are mainly countries in the middle and northern Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia.

In 2010, six countries so unsafe that Foreign Affairs advised to not go there. Now apply this advice to thirteen countries, such as Yemen, Libya, Sierra Leone and Syria.

Causes of increased

insecurity, the Arab Spring, the rise of Islamist groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram, natural disasters and disease .