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Some 1,000 Ukrainian tourists are stranded in Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar after Ukrainian airspace was closed to civilian flights following Russia's invasion.
BBC Africa spoke to Oleksii and Yekaterina, two of the tourists stranded in Zanzibar, about their predicament.