Adventures

Eswatini has just handed African safari operators a genuinely new story to sell. The Eswatini cheetah reintroduction has put four cats back into the Kingdom’s bush, 35 years after the …

On 9 November 2025, around twenty men armed with wooden bats stormed a preview event at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, forcing ambassadors and donors …

The peaks sit in Burkina Faso‘s Cascades Region, roughly 50 kilometres west of Banfora, where narrow sandstone fins and needle-shaped spires rise about 415 metres above sea level along a …

Four hundred metres. That is roughly the distance from the last ranger post inside Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park to the boundary marker of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic …

The skier arrives expecting Africa to look nothing like a winter holiday. Then the temperature drops to minus 8°C, the Maluti Mountains turn white, and a ski instructor points towards …

Rwanda may eventually ask tourists to go underground for a different reason: not to see minerals being extracted, but to understand how the country extracted them. Mining operators are now …

In 1995, fewer than 25 desert-adapted lions survived in north-west Namibia, and the country’s elephant population had fallen to roughly 7,000. Black rhinos clung to a shrinking corner of Etosha …

A camera the size of a matchbox sits bolted to a marula tree in Tanzania’s Grumeti Reserve, watching a footpath no ranger can watch through the night. When a shape …

Every 10 February, a small crowd gathers among the graves of Kinshasa’s Gombe cemetery. They arrive in three-piece suits, silk cravats and leather brogues, and they climb onto the tombstones …

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 …