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By Monday Ukoha In September 2025, the government of Burkina Faso announced that it would waive visa fees for African visitors; it stopped short of offering no visa free entry to all African citizens, else it would have joined the four countries namely Benin, Seychelles, The Gambia and Rwanda as countries with no visa requirements for African citizens. Ghana has …
By Monday Ukoha In the past couple of years and even currently many African countries have been investing in the upgrade of their airports. In November 2024, Angola became the latest as it opened its Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto Angola International Airport. Other major international airport projects in the pipeline on the continent include the Bugesera International Airport in Rwanda …
Business Aviation And Africa Business Aviation plays a critical role in economic development and in many ways its successes go hand in hand with economic progress. In Africa, Business Aviation takes on a higher importance due to several reasons. Business Aviation is a dire necessity for Africa. Africa controls only 2.1% of world aviation in spite of its huge population. …
By Aminat Bakare “Africa wants to fly”, this was the theme of this year’s Yamossoukro Decision (YD) Day celebration. The grand event brought together honourable ministers or representatives of over 12 African countries, aviation stakeholders, leaders, partners and delegates across Africa. The YD Day anniversary as designated by the 29th Assembly of African Union to be celebrated at national, regional …
Mr. Rodger Foster, Airlink CEO In this exclusive interview with Aviation & Allied Business Journal on the sidelines of IATA AGA in Doha, reviews the challenges facing African Airlines Q: You are here at the 78 IATA AGM, what’s your impression of the recovery in the industry, especially for the African airlines and for Airlink? A: This is a …
By Roland Ohaeri Alliance In The Offing The big question as to whether Africa could produce its own mega-carrier or an ‘African Airlines Alliance’, like the global alliances of SkyTeam, Oneworld and Star Alliance, appears to be getting a definite response as Kenya Airways signed a Strategic Partnership Framework with South African Airways late November 2021. The airlines describe …
Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways PLC (KQ), said it has signed a Strategic Partnership Framework with South African Airways (SAA). KQ said the partnership is a key milestone towards co-starting a Pan African Airline Group by 2023. The partnership framework follows the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) that the two airlines signed two months ago to foster the exchange of knowledge, …
Mr. Chris Zweigenthal is the immediate-past Chief Executive Officer of Airlines Association Of Southern Africa (AASA). In this valedictory interview with Aviation & Allied Business Journal, he relives the progression of the industry over the decades of his service, and offers insights on the way forward for the industry in Africa amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Q: You recently bowed …
Africa is hoping for sustainable restart and recovery of the economy and aviation industry on the continent. H.E. Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union Commission (AUC), in this exclusive interview with Aviation & Allied Business explores efforts to drive Africa’s urgent objectives, including issues on vaccines and continental trade and transport liberalization. …
David Minty is the Head of Aviation for Africa at Investec Bank, South Africa, which provides finance support to the aviation industry in Africa. As expectation of industry recovery from the impact of COVID-19 builds up, he offers insights on how to approach the tremendous challenges of poor financing in aviation industry in Africa, in this exclusive interview with Aviation …
