Visas, Policy & Infrastructure

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 …

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 …

For most of the past six decades, getting into Algeria as a leisure traveller meant a hotel booking stamped by a town hall, a letter of invitation, and a wait …

The queue at Kasumbalesa stretched 56 kilometres into the Democratic Republic of Congo in January 2025. Even after border authorities pushed extra trucks through, drivers still faced roughly 24 hours …

Ghana’s visa system was split into two on 25 May 2026, and the split favours some travellers far more than others. Ghana Visa on Arrival 2026 rules now sit alongside …

A decade-long travel freeze between two of Africa’s biggest tourism economies has an end date. On 17 June 2026, Rwanda and South Africa committed to restoring full visa access for …

Ghana is open and ready for you, more so than at any point in recent memory. After years of economic turbulence, currency swings, and post-pandemic tourism resets, West Africa’s most …

The world is eating Africa. Not the sanitised, stripped-down version sold in novelty pop-ups, but real, layered, ancestral food, smoky suya skewers, slow-simmered egusi, fermented injera stacked high with doro …