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The Gambia and Senegal just did something most neighbouring African destinations still refuse to do: they built a permanent structure to fix what breaks between them, instead of promising to …

Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of …

Namibia has stopped waiting for tourists to find it. On the 30th of July, the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB), the Namibian High Commission to Botswana and the Namibia Investment Promotion …

The AU Continental Tourism Strategy 2030 began with a single sentence, signed by tourism ministers in Nairobi in October 2018: Africa should become the preferred tourism destination in the world. …

Currency convertibility across African tourism sits behind a set of everyday frictions that most guidebooks never mention: cash import limits, exchange-rate spreads between official and parallel markets, and card networks …

Cross River has handed over its best-known tourism asset for the second time in nine years, and the fine print matters more than the photo call. A 25-year concession only …

Africa’s tour operators are not waiting for kick-off to start selling the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. In Lagos this September, the continent’s largest travel gathering will spend three days …

Namibia is rebuilding its national airline, and a fresh licence filing just gave the African travel trade the clearest picture yet of where its routes will go.  According to Windhoek …

Morocco’s airport passenger growth reached 18.83 million travellers in the first six months of 2026, up 8.83%  on the same period a year earlier, according to figures the National Airports …

Chad just handed Central Africa’s travel trade a reason to draw new maps. Effective 1 January 2027, any traveller holding a passport from one of Africa’s 54 nations can enter …