Oluwafemi Kehinde

A one-way ticket from Nairobi to Lagos costs close to $900. A passenger flying from Nairobi to Dubai, a route nearly three times the distance, pays around $675, according to …

In April 2026, a delegation of Egyptian tourism officials stood at the edge of Lake Victoria in Jinja and photographed a stretch of water most of their clients have never …

In October 2025, the United States ordered non-emergency staff to leave its embassy in Bamako. Three months later, in January 2026, it reversed that decision and normalised operations there, citing …

Zimbabwe’s most storied hotel now belongs to a single owner, and that shift could decide who controls the next wave of investment at one of Southern Africa’s busiest tourism gateways. …

Chad just handed Central Africa an aviation security story nobody expected. The country’s effective implementation score for international civil aviation security standards has more than doubled since 2017, and the …

Botswana is quietly stepping back from its high-value, low-volume tourism model, the same formula the rest of Africa now studies as a blueprint. In April 2026, Tourism Minister Kagiso Mmolotsi …

In 1975, when apartheid-era South African Airways faced flight bans across mainland Africa, single-runway tarmac on the Cape Verdean island of Sal provided the essential refuelling stop for flights bound …

Djibouti has never had a single site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Not one. Yet the country sits astride the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, one of the busiest shipping corridors on the …

Ask anyone who has booked a flight between two West African capitals what it cost, and the answer usually explains why they haven’t flown that route twice. In December 2025, …

Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of …