08:36 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nFlights to East Africa have been severely disrupted as ash from an Eritrean volcano spreads across the region and heads towards Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
Several airlines said they had stopped flying to Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
The ash cloud was now changing direction, from north-west to south-west and had reached Sudan and Egypt, an Ethiopian academic said.<\/p>\n
The cloud followed a volcanic eruption in Eritrea at the weekend.<\/p>\n
It forced US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to cut short a three-nation tour of Africa on Monday.<\/p>\n
‘Size decreasing’<\/span><\/p>\nInitially only the German airline Lufthansa cancelled flights to Eritrea and neighbouring Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
Now Ethiopian Airways has said it has cancelled flights to Sudan and Djibouti.<\/p>\n
Kenya Airways said it was no longer flying on the Ethiopia-Djibouti route and Dubai’s Emirates airline said it had cancelled flights to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n
Satellite images obtained by the France-based Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre showed the cloud was moving towards Saudi Arabia, Reuters news agency reports.<\/p>\n
But Atalay Ayele of the Geophysical Observatory Centre of Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University said the size of the ash cloud was decreasing.<\/p>\n
“The ash’s direction and its intensity were very high on Sunday, but… the Modis [Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer] satellite shows a weakening,” he said.<\/p>\n
According to the US space agency Nasa, the satellite images confirm the eruption was at the Nabro volcano, which is not known to have erupted before.<\/p>\n
Earlier reports had said it was the Dubbi volcano that had sent the plumes of ash 13km (eight miles) into the air.<\/p>\n
Peggy Hellweg, a seismologist at the University of California, told the BBC the volcano could go on rumbling and spewing ash for some time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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