Senegal wants to get a fair price for it's resources and asks for that? France issues a travel warning and decimates their tourist industry for a few years.
It's common place for Western countries to issue travel warnings when they just don't like what a certain country is doing politically. It's often got nothing to do with traveler safety.
I'm not saying it's OK, but it's hardly a reason to warn people not to go there.
China has been holding 3 Canadian's, likely in retaliation to the CFO of Huawei being held. So it may seem warranted here?
This is another bullet point in an escalation trend we've been seeing between the West and China, mostly surrounding infrastructure and political pressure/flurries of arrests and high profile detainments, in both regions.
Your travel insurance policy is not valid if you travel to a country that has a travel warning issued by the country that the policy is issued by.
So essentially, if you go anywhere even slightly "not first world" your travel insurance is useless.
This is an absurd claim.
Can you present one example of this happening? Travel insurance clearly shows the countries it will cover you for, any claims denied are likely for very different reasons.
I've made a few claims in the developing world with nothing more than testimony+pictures, the police report was essentially worthless and likely never translated.
I'm pretty sure they can't quote you for a trip to Elbonia and then say "lol j/k we don't have to cover anything because there was a warning against Elbonia at the time".
(I could maybe believe they could exclude events happening after a warning after the policy was issued.)
That's exactly what they do.
It's in the fine print. Read it.
I don't know any insurance commission that would be okay with the fine print saying "the coverage on the specific trip to the country you asked for was void from the moment it was issued because warning and therefore you were paying for nothing".
Can you cite a case where a travel insurer issued a policy that covered nothing from the moment it was written for a specific trip to a specific warned country?