Air travellers in West and Central Africa do so with tears due to bottlenecks created by African governments. For instance, a journey by air from Abuja to Douala in Cameroon, which shares borders with Nigeria, could take the traveller about 24 hours. This is because the passenger may be made to fly from Nigeria to
Tanzania and Burundi signed an agreement worth $900 million to build a railway line that will connect the two countries, Tanzania’s Finance Ministry said in a statement Sunday, adding that the two neighboring East African nations are searching for financial backers for the project. The 282-kilometer (175-mile) line, which will connect the western Tanzanian town
By Derek Nseko On the 14 and 15th of November 2009, African ministers and government representatives in charge of civil aviation under the auspices of the AU (then OAU), signed up to an agreement that bound their respective states to a decision that would see the full liberalization of air transport services on the continent. African
By Andrew Curran. An Ethiopian Airlines Airbus suffered extensive wing damage after a hard landing in Johannesburg earlier this month. The incident damaged a jet just one-year-old and is the latest in a series of incidents to dog the airline. Images later posted online reveal damage to the jet’s right wingtip. ADS-B data indicates the
South African Airways (SAA), yesterday, concluded plans to resume the Lagos-Johannesburg operations beginning from December 12, 2021. The carrier, just emerging from crisis, has brought options on the lucrative route that also has Air Peace airlines. SAA has been flying to Nigeria for the past 23 years and the resumption of the service is a
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