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British Airways’ expanded Cape Town flights will test a long-standing claim by African tourism boards: that visitor demand grows when more seats are available, not simply through promotional slogans. From …

Twenty years. That is how long the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the body that ranks the world’s conference cities, has kept its own annual congress away from Africa. …

Ten million views in under 20 hours. That was the audience for the Ethiopia stop of IShowSpeed’s 28-day Africa tour, which began in Angola in December 2025 and ended in …

On 5 August 2025, New Era reported that about 70 residents of Ohungumure, a village 20 kilometres outside Opuwo in north-western Namibia, sat in silence around one food hamper. Tourists …

One inspection could decide whether Bamako regains a direct air link to Dakar. The Sky Mali Dakar route hasn’t launched, but it’s reached the stage where regulators matter more than …

More than 95% of the water that feeds Botswana’s Okavango Delta falls as rain on Angola’s highlands. Botswana collects the safari revenue; Angola barely features on the itinerary. The Angola-Namibia …

At the southern entrance to the Red Sea, where cargo vessels pass between the Gulf of Aden and one of the world’s most consequential maritime corridors, Djibouti has spent decades …

One country holds more than a third of Africa’s hotel pipeline rooms. Egypt has 45,984 rooms under development across 185 hotels, more than four times Morocco’s total. The continental headline, …

A Zanzibar tourism platform now poses the question most African destinations avoid: who keeps the money visitors spend? Zanzibar launched JamboGo.Africa to put local hotels, guides, artists and entrepreneurs in …

The Ukuthwasa ceremony in Zimbabwe does not begin with drums or dancing. It begins with illness. People who receive the calling often try modern medicine first and fail, according to …