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TAAG Angola Airlines is expanding its range of services. From 11 December 2023, the Angolan national carrier will be adding more frequencies to Namibia (Windhoek), the Republic of Congo (Pointe-Noire), São Tomé (São Tomé) and Mozambique (Maputo) from Luanda, Angola.
For several weeks now, the airline has been actively preparing for the resumption of its commercial operations. After the arrival of the first Boeing 737-800 aircraft at the beginning of the week, a second aircraft of the same type landed in Kinshasa on Tuesday 21 November 2023 from Malta.
Zambia Railways Limited has recommenced its train operations between Livingstone in the Southern Province and Mulobezi in the Western Province. The service, suspended in May due to the unsafe condition of Bombwe Bridge, resumed on November 14 following successful repairs funded by the government.
Engineer Fred Mwila, the Acti… read more
The aircraft, leased from ACMI, is due to arrive in Kinshasa on Monday 20 November 2023 from Poland. It should enable the company to resume flights after more than two months of stoppage.
Rwanda has slowly reformed its visa system to be more open to visitors and businesspeople, aiming to promote international relations, cooperation, and economic growth, particularly through tourism, according to government officials. The latest changes, which include visa waivers for citizens of more than 100 countries over a specif… read more
Africa’s significant road infrastructure deficit creates increased production and transaction costs that must be addressed to scale opportunities envisaged under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, a new report has found.
The report, called Cross-Border Road Corridors Expanding Market Access in Africa and Nurturing Contin… read more
South African Airways (SAA) has relaunched service to Sao
Paulo—marking the only intercontinental destination to which the airline
operates.
The carrier commenced flights between Cape Town
International Airport (CPT) and Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport (GRU) on
Oct. 31. It will operate the route 2X-weekly. … read more
The rebranded Uganda Airlines is opening up the African skies albeit gradually, while also expanding into the hitherto monopolised routes of major carriers. The revived East African carrier is steadily becoming a giant in African space with its tenacious expansion of routes in the last four years when it began operations.
The airlin… read more
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement, as one of
the flagship projects of the African Union’s Agenda 2063: “the Africa
We Want”, entered into force on 30 May 2019 following the deposit of the
twenty-second (22nd) instrument of ratification of the Agreement.
Following the decision of the 13th Extraordinary Sess… read more
Kenya and Angola have become the latest African countries to
announce plans to ease visa restrictions as part of efforts to improve
air connectivity and spur bilateral trade. The move follows a similar
agreement announced earlier this month between neighbors Uganda and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Kenya-Angola pact … read more