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Zimbabwe’s Elephant Express is offering travelers an unusual safari experience aboard a custom-built railcar running alongside Hwange National Park, home to around 40,000 elephants. The slow-moving train travels a 50-mile stretch between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls, giving passengers close encounters with wildlife rarely seen from conventional safari vehicles. Guests aboard the 22-seat carriage regularly spot […]
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Human Rights Watch has accused the United Arab Emirates of serving as a transit point for Colombian mercenaries recruited to support Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of widespread atrocities during the country’s ongoing civil war. The rights organization said mercenaries were recruited through Emirati-linked companies and trained at UAE military installations before […]
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Ethiopian opposition parties are heading into June 1 elections facing a deeply uneven playing field, with allegations of harassment, media suppression, and violent intimidation undermining any prospect of a competitive vote. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, which captured 96% of parliamentary seats in 2021, is running unopposed in 64 of 547 constituencies. The largest […]
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Zambia’s state investment firm, ZCCM Investments Holdings, has joined forces with Chinese-owned Wonderful Group to revive a 95-year-old lime and cement production facility in the country’s Copperbelt region. The partnership will operate through a new entity called Ndola Lime Limited, backed by $30 million in new investment from Wonderful Group. Wonderful Group will hold a […]
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South Africa is lobbying for a 15-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, arguing that short-term renewals erode investor confidence and disrupt regional industrial planning. Pretoria also wants the scheme’s eligibility criteria revised to account for inequality levels rather than income thresholds alone. The trade agreement, which grants duty-free access to the US […]
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Global energy services and oilfield equipment provider NOV has joined the African Energy Week (AEW) (www.AECWeek.com) 2026 Conference and Exhibition as a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing the company’s commitment to supporting Africa’s upstream growth, offshore expansion and energy infrastructure development. NOV’s participation comes as African oil and gas producers accelerate drilling campaigns and fast-track project execution […]
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In response to the intensifying climate emergency and the growing challenges of water resource management across the continent, the African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) (www.UAR-AUB.org), in partnership with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and HEC Montréal, proudly announces the launch of an exclusive webinar series. The inaugural session will […]
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Africa’s energy sector is entering a different phase of capital formation. For the past two decades, the focus has been on attracting international investment into the continent’s upstream oil and gas projects. Now, a growing base of African sovereign wealth funds, state-backed vehicles and independent operators have both the balance sheet strength and the strategic […]
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African health leaders and global partners have agreed to strengthen regional coordination and resource mobilisation to contain the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, while also safeguarding essential services such as education and routine healthcare, including continued efforts to contain cholera, measles and other outbreaks on the […]
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By Herbert Mensah, President of Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) and Chair of World Rugby’s Regions. As we celebrate Africa Day under the theme “63 Years of Unity, Integration and Development,” a question emerges: are unity and integration translating into clear outcomes across the world? When investment, capacity, and infrastructure remain uneven, shared systems cannot produce shared growth […]
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Value, loyalty and city-level data top of mind as travel buyers head into global RFP season Business travel is holding its own, even as global conditions shift. New data from FCM Consulting’s inaugural hotel-focused research report shows that while the routine internal meetings that once generated high volumes of corporate trips have given way to more […]
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South Africa’s R495 billion digital economy could grow to R874.5 billion by 2035, according to new independent research that finds Meta’s platforms are contributing an estimated R16.5 billion in annual economic value today, with AI set to add a further R528 billion to GDP over the next decade. The “Meta’s Impact in South Africa” report, […]
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