The Department of State urges travelers in Algeria to evaluate carefully the risks. Terrorist attacks, including bombings, false roadblocks, kidnappings, ambushes and assassinations, occur regularly.

Since June 2008, the Kabylie region has seen a series of bombing and other terrorist attacks of increasing size and frequency, including a suicide car-bomb at a gendarmerie school in Issers on Aug. 19 that killed at least 44 people.

While Algerian security forces have been targeted...

Armed attacks have occurred on roads that many travelers take from Guatemala City through the Petén region of Guatemala to see the Mayan ruins at Tikal.

Many of the robbery attempts have occurred in daylight hours on main highways. The robbers also have used a section of highway where the paved portion ends and vehicles must slow to drive on gravel. Carjacking incidents and highway robberies often are violent.

Visitors to Tikal are urged to fly to nearby Flores and then travel...

At press time, the Union of Comoros was continuing to experience gasoline and diesel fuel shortages following a July 2008 termination of a sole-source supply contract for the country’s fuel needs.

Street demonstrations protesting the lack of fuel had occurred in the capital of Moroni and on the island of Anjouan. The protests were primarily directed against the Comoran government, but past protests were directed against the French and other Westerners residing in the country.

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