Travel news Chad

• Flights
• 21/11/2022 21:24

Cameroon-Tunisia: a direct air link announced for 2023-2024

Since 2017, the Tunisian and Cameroonian authorities have been planning to open a direct air link between their two countries. It was supposed to be launched in 2018, by Tunisair, like other routes. But in the meantime the Tunisian national airline has revised its growth ambitions downwards.

After the failure of 2018, and vague announce… read more

• Opinion
• 30/10/2022 20:32

 Nigeria Air: Doomed On Arrival

The Nigeria Air project has generated more polemics than any other government policies in the Nigerian aviation industry. Stakeholders in unison say the airline is doomed to fail before it begins.

  The plan by the Federal Government to birth a new national carrier for Nigeria before the end of the year has generated more contro… read more

• Flights
• 30/10/2022 20:31

Chad invites Ethiopian Airlines to stop using "old planes" on the Ndjamena route

The Chadian authorities are now demanding better treatment and more security for their compatriots on Ethiopian Airlines flights on its route between Ndjamena and Addis Ababa. This is the quintessence of the message of firmness transmitted to the country representative of the company, at the end of the meeting with the Director Gen… read more

• Conservation & Wildlife
• 09/08/2022 21:01

Chad and Zambia join Unesco’s world biosphere network

_{The Sena Oura National Park in Chad and the Kafue National Park in Zambia have joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Biosphere Network. The addition of Chad and Zambia to the Unesco biosphere network this year brings the number of African r}

• Flights
• 07/08/2022 20:29

Chadia Airlines, a subsidiary of Ethiopian Airlines, dissolved and put into liquidation

Born from the ashes of the defunct Toumaï Air Tchad, Tchadia Airlines, launched in October 2018 in partnership with Ethiopian Airlines, intended to become a leading airline in Central Africa. Three years later, it is a loss-making and indebted carrier that has made the painful choice to file for bankruptcy.

• Conservation & Wildlife
• Attractions
• 07/07/2022 06:59

Zambia, African Parks deal progressive

African Parks and Government signed a US$20 million 20-year agreement in efforts to protect flora and fauna and the landscape of Kafue National Park through effective management of the wildlife sanctuary. The agreement seeks to deliver greater investment in the management of Zambia’s largest national park – covering 22,400 square … read more

• Conservation & Wildlife
• 16/06/2022 18:14

African Parks to manage Zakouma Park for another 5 years

African Parks Network will manage the Zakouma Large Functional Ecosystem at least until 2027. So decided the Chadian government through the renewal of the existing agreement with this nature conservation organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Large Functional Ecosystem of Zakouma is a group formed by the Zakouma National Park mana… read more

• Miscellaneous
• 21/05/2022 07:28

Nigeria pushes for Eco-friendly Fly-Green Nigeria program to voluntary reduce Co2 emission

DIRECTOR General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has said that Nigeria, being faced with a host of climate change challenges, including being the country with the highest deforestation rate hence, is initiating the Fly-2-Green Nigeria Program to help carbon emission reduction.

The… read more

• Flights
• 17/05/2022 08:25

Bamako reduces the chances of Air Sahel ever taking to the air

Wanted by the five members of the G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad), the project to create the Air Sahel community airline is no longer in a hurry. In the making since 2015, its fate now seems to be in the past. And the recent friction between Bamako and the other members make us fear for its future, which is very sim… read more

• Rail
• 16/05/2022 05:09

Railway renewal to improve freight and passenger links to Northern Cameroon, Chad and Central Africa

The European Union has agreed to provide €123 million to support the upgrading of the 330km Belabo – Ngaoundere railway line in Cameroon.

The €106 million European Investment Bank loan and €17.1 million European Union grant was confirmed in Yaoundé on 6 May, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Joseph Ngute. Thomas Ostros EIB Vi… read more