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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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

A Tripoli-to-Paris flight will soon take two and a half hours instead of a full day of layovers. For more than a decade, anyone travelling between Libya and France has …

Guinea just handed itself a fifth shot at a national airline, and this time the stakes lie within a $200 billion economic plan rather than at a press conference. On …

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 …

Two Southern African capitals sit roughly 400 kilometres apart, yet no aircraft flies directly between them. Botswana and Lesotho are now negotiating to close that gap, and the outcome tests …

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 …