Airline News What Recent Airline Mergers Mean for Regional Air Travel in Africa by Familugba Victor 2 months ago written by Familugba Victor Flying from Lagos to Douala, a distance of under 400 kilometres, regularly demands an overnight layover in Addis Ababa or Paris, racking up airfares that exceed transatlantic itineraries. This spatial … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage UNESCO’s Growing African Heritage List: The Sites Positioned for 2027–2030 Inscription by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde Djibouti has never had a single site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Not one. Yet the country sits astride the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, one of the busiest shipping corridors on the … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Adventure Tourism How Lesotho Is Claiming Its Place as Africa’s Mountain Kingdom by Familugba Victor 2 months ago written by Familugba Victor Lesotho’s push to brand itself as Africa’s Mountain Kingdom is not an isolated marketing exercise. It sits directly inside the African Union’s Continental Tourism Strategy, the policy architecture meant to … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Visas, Policy & Infrastructure ECOWAS Airfare Reform: How Côte d’Ivoire Is Winning West Africa’s Flight-Tax Race by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde 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, … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Visas, Policy & Infrastructure Stronger Air Links, Seamless Travel: Gambia and Senegal Team Up on Tourism by Familugba Victor 2 months ago written by Familugba Victor 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 … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Airline News Egypt Hosts Africa’s Biggest Aviation Summit as Africa Target 40 New Routes by 2030 by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde Cairo did not simply open a conference this week. It surfaced a number of African aviation officials have argued over for a decade: African carriers now handle under 20% of … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Visas, Policy & Infrastructure Namibia, Botswana Strengthen Tourism Links in Gaborone Drive for Cross-Border Growth by Familugba Victor 2 months ago written by Familugba Victor 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 … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Visas, Policy & Infrastructure The AU’s Continental Tourism Strategy 2030: What It Promises vs What’s Been Delivered by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde 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. … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Adventure Tourism Freediving Opens New Routes Along Africa’s Overlooked Shorelines by Familugba Victor 2 months ago written by Familugba Victor Ninety metres down inside Egypt’s Blue Hole, there is no engine noise, no bubbles, no gauge ticking away air. Just a rope, a diver’s own heartbeat slowing on command, and … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Safari & Wildlife Rewilding Malawi: The Return of Predator Species and What It Means for Safari Routes by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago written by Oluwafemi Kehinde In 1990, the last confirmed cheetah in Malawi vanished from the record entirely—no sighting, no carcass, just an absence where a species had been. Twenty-seven years passed before a cheetah … Continue Reading 2 months ago 0 comment 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail