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Kenya Airways is not backing down on its most lucrative Gulf corridor. Business Daily Africa reports that the carrier has secured a second daily landing slot at Dubai International Airport …

Etihad Airways and Fastjet Zimbabwe signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Harare on 7th July 2026, and the Etihad-Fastjet Zimbabwe partnership folds Zimbabwe’s domestic carrier into one of the Gulf’s …

Ghana just won the 2027 UN Tourism Commission for Africa, and it won something worth more than a hosting slot. UN Tourism’s member states voted, at the close of the …

Angola’s Tourism Minister, Márcio Daniel, told delegates on the 9th of July in Luanda that his ministry intends to push tourism into the country’s top three employment-generating sectors within a …

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 …