Visas, Policy & Infrastructure

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 …

Every year, thousands of people board flights to Accra, Dakar, Lagos, and Ouidah carrying something heavier than luggage, a hunger to find themselves in a place they have never been. …

Every December, something remarkable happens in Lagos. The city’s population swells. Flights from London, Houston, Toronto, and New York fill up weeks in advance. Hotel rooms vanish. And across the …

Morocco is writing Africa’s boldest airport modernisation story, and it is doing so with public money, development finance, and a clear deadline.  North Africa Post reports that the European Bank …