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British Airways’ new Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar route pulls East Africa’s safari-and-beach circuit out of the transit hubs and puts it on a single UK ticket for the first time in …

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 …

Aviation Data Specialist Aero Routes recently reported that Turkish Airlines Africa route cuts just erased five capital cities from the carrier’s future map, permanently this time. When a foreign mega-carrier …

RwandAir’s fleet expansion will not by itself lower the price of flying across Africa. The Kigali-based carrier’s plan matters to travel professionals not because of how many aircraft it adds, …

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 …

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 …