Africa Tourism News

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 …

Zanzibar just posted its strongest August on record, and the country driving that record sits in southern Europe. The archipelago welcomed 124,481 international visitors in August 2026, an 18% rise …

Cape Verde closed 2024 with roughly 1.2 million visitors, a record for an archipelago of just over 500,000 residents, according to Jair Fernandes, president of the Cabo Verde Tourism Institute, …

Tanzania and its semi-autonomous islands carried home a wide slate of continental titles at World Travel Awards Africa 2026, the region’s biggest tourism honours night. Nigeria carried home one. That …

Angola’s government spent June and August 2026 filling Luanda’s conference halls: first the Global Tourism Forum’s investment summit, then FIN Summit’s finance and business gathering. Officials called both proof that …

Ivory Coast’s tourism ministry put a number on its ambition in 2024: $1 billion, committed to rebuilding the country’s hospitality sector from the ground up. Senegal, Benin, Cameroon and Guinea …

Three years ago, the ground beneath Angola’s newest landmark was ocean. On 24 August 2026, President João Lourenço cut the ribbon on the Palácio de Convenções de Luanda, a 3,000-seat …

In March 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy hovered over the Mozambique Channel for 35 days, making landfall twice and inflicting $1.53 billion in structural damage across ten provinces, according to a …

A two-storey mud tower with a rounded granary sitting on top like a helmet is not a folly. It is a home, a fortress, a temple and a farm building, …

Luanda is no longer just a refuelling stop for oil executives. Between 31 October and 1 November 2026, the city tests whether it can pull a different kind of visitor: …