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Joy at JKIA as Kenyans return from Dubai on first repatriation flight
Managing Director at Olivine school in Nyali, Olive Kamene Tindika, is welcomed as she returns from Dubai aboard Kenya Airways KQ305 flight at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), with her students, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Nairobi, Kenya, March 5, 2026.
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A flight carrying Kenyans and others fleeing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrived in Nairobi on Thursday, including 13 children and their teachers who had been on a school trip to the Gulf.
"We were stuck there for five days...it was scary, every day we would get alerts and the children would just lose it," school director Olive Tindika told Reuters, saying the children arrived in tears at teachers' hotel rooms whenever explosions lit up the sky.
