Tourists shun archipelago after terror warnings

Since the US State Department recently warned Americans about travelling to Zanzibar, the decorative Maasai warrior at the entrance to Bluebay Beach now orders guards to search all vehicles before they enter the resort.

But these days, few cars even come to Zanzibar’s south coast where the dazzling white sand beaches once drew draw visitors to the legendary archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa.