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In December 2025, Tripoli’s Red Castle reopened its doors as the National Museum of Libya, fourteen years after the conflict shut it. Visitors walked past Ottoman ramparts to see artefacts …

In 2017, Rwanda’s tourism board did something most hospitality economists would have advised against: it doubled the price of watching a gorilla chew bamboo for an hour. A trekking permit …

Convenience across transatlantic flight routes carries a steep price tag that passengers often ignore. According to data from Google Flights Route Analytics, those booking the fifteen-hour non-stop flight between Nairobi …

A grounded aircraft sitting in Namibia says more about African aviation than any press statement can. Air Botswana is now bringing that aircraft home, and the timeline attached to the …

South Sudan now controls its own skies. In a decision confirmed in late June 2026, the International Civil Aviation Organization approved the Juba Flight Information Region, and the decision hands …

Bagamoyo tourism investment is entering a phase that Tanzania’s mainland coast has mostly watched from the sidelines. For two decades, hotel investors chasing Indian Ocean beachfront in this country flowed …

For most of the past six decades, getting into Algeria as a leisure traveller meant a hotel booking stamped by a town hall, a letter of invitation, and a wait …

Air Côte d’Ivoire’s fleet expansion just picked up serious financial muscle. The Centre for Aviation reports that on 26 June 2026, the West African Development Bank (BOAD) approved a XOF50 …

The queue at Kasumbalesa stretched 56 kilometres into the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2025. Even after border authorities pushed extra trucks through, drivers still faced roughly 24 hours …

Ghana’s visa system was split into two on 25 May 2026, and the split favours some travellers far more than others. Ghana Visa on Arrival 2026 rules now sit alongside …