Visas, Policy & Infrastructure

Botswana is quietly stepping back from its high-value, low-volume tourism model, the same formula the rest of Africa now studies as a blueprint. In April 2026, Tourism Minister Kagiso Mmolotsi …

Ask anyone who has booked a flight between two West African capitals what it cost, and the answer usually explains why they haven’t flown that route twice. In December 2025, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Eight African passports just changed value in Europe, and forty-six did not. From 2026, ordinary passport holders from Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cape Verde and Rwanda can walk …

At the Seme border crossing between Nigeria and Benin, a trader hands over a bundle of naira notes and receives CFA francs back, minus a spread of nearly six per …

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 …