AFI Week Re-Ignites Africa’s Coordinated Capacity Building Efforts For Aviation

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By Roland Ohaeri     Unlocking Political Will Perhaps, the most outstanding outcome of the 7th AFI Week held in Abuja mid-May 2022 is the successful meeting of ICAO Secretary General, Juan Carlos Salazar, and high-level aviation leaders and regulators in Africa with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, to emphasise on the need to provide political will to support aviation …

Driving Safety Standards And Targets In The ESAF Region

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Historically, the aviation industry in the ESAF Region was the envy of the world for almost 4 decades from the 1930s to1960s. The aviation growth and routes across the region from Ethiopia to East Africa, “Federation of Rhodesia” (now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), and South Africa became global templates. This story could also be told for the regional airline consolidation …

African Aviation Industry Calls For Harmonized Safe Restart Of Air Services

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA), Airports Council International- Africa (ACI Africa) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Regional Offices for African States  are united in their calls on governments in Africa to rapidly implement ICAO’s global guidelines for restoring air connectivity to ensure the safe and harmonized restart of aviation in the region. These guidelines are contained in …