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A queue at passport control can undo months of destination marketing in under five minutes. Namibia’s tourism authorities appear to have absorbed that lesson: instead of routing new investment only …

Botswana received 1,183,432 international tourists in 2023, with the majority entering through border posts and airports that feed directly into the Okavango-Chobe circuit. This was disclosed by Statistics Botswana in …

Ankara never started in Africa. It began as a Dutch attempt to mass-produce Indonesian batik, and it failed in the market it was built for before it found the one …

Egypt wants 30 million annual visitors by 2028, more than double the 15.78 million recorded in 2024. Reaching that figure means persuading tourists to stay longer and travel further south …

RwandAir’s fleet expansion will not by itself lower the price of flying across Africa. The Kigali-based carrier’s plan matters to travel professionals not because of how many aircraft it adds, …

Zanzibar President, Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, on 31 August 2026, met Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade during a summit marking 65 years of the Non-Aligned Movement. Mwinyi pressed the …

On 14 July 2025, a Ghanaian trader crossed into Nairobi and walked through immigration without a stamp, a form, or a fee. A year earlier, the same journey would have …

A lion collared in Zambia’s Kafue National Park turned up months later in genetic samples taken more than 200 kilometres away, in the Lower Zambezi. Researchers had written off the …

Bale Mountains National Park covers 215,000 hectares of the Bale-Arsi Massif in Oromia, protected since 1970 and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 18 September 2023, Ethiopia’s eleventh …

Every year, Africa sends roughly $7 billion out of the continent so its citizens can get treated somewhere else  more than 300,000 of them fly to India alone in search …