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By Martin Rivers* [caption id="attachment_29450" align="alignleft" width="300"] Delta Air Lines is now the only U.S. carrier serving Africa with nonstop flights – and it is cutting back capacity. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] The decision by United Airlines to stop serving Lagos, Nigeria from Houston means that Delta Air Lines is now the only U.S. passenger carrier with a footprint in Africa. United will ground its daily route at the end of June, citing a mixture of financial underperformance and difficulties repatriating revenue earned in the country. Energy-exporting Nigeria has imposed currency restrictions after being hard hit by the downturn in oil prices. While Nigeria still enjoys two other connections with the U.S. – Delta-operated flights from Atlanta to Lagos, and Arik Air’s Lagos-New York route – the broader outlook for connectivity between America and Africa is not good.