Travel news DRC

• Miscellaneous
• 27/01/2023 23:06

Tourism trade from Africa impressed with 2023 FITUR’s platform for business links

• Miscellaneous
• 21/01/2023 08:04

23 African countries attended FITUR 2023

A total of twenty-three (23) countries from Africa participated in this year’s FITUR in Madrid, Spain.

Participation from these countries will include state tourism ministries, boards, private sector businesses, organisations and individual travel and tourism stakeholders.

Fitur is a global benchmark event in the tourism sect… read more

• Rail
• 11/12/2022 22:00

Zambia courts investors for Greenfield Rail Projects

Zambia is searching for investors to help fund a series of planned greenfield rail projects to boost connections to existing lines in Southern Africa.

Speaking at the 2022 Southern African Railways Association (SARA) conference in Johannesburg, Zambian transport and logistics minister Frank Tayali said the government was working on a compr… read more

• Flights
• 09/12/2022 21:54

DRC: Carlyle Aviation Partners delivers third A320 to flyCAA

flyCAA is well aware of the potential of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a vast country of 2.345 million km² still poorly served by road. To meet the growing demand of this market of nearly 90 million inhabitants, the private Congolese carrier is pursuing its plan to expand its fleet.

• Rail
• 04/12/2022 23:06

TransNamib To Upgrade Rail, Locomotives

TransNamib of Namibia has embarked on the rehabilitation and maintenance of the railway line as part of plans to improve the company’s ability to operate and move freight safely.

Abigail Raubenheimer, Corporate Communications Manager at TransNamib says the Namibian government as the owner of the railway infrastructure has rea… read more

• Rail
• 14/11/2022 05:05

Tanzania Railway Corporation and Democratic Republic of the Congo set to discuss collaboration

Minister of Construction and Transport Tanzania Prof. Makame Mbarawa accompanied by the Minister of Infrastructure of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - DRC Alexis Gusaro along with other leaders from the DRC visited the SGR Station building in Dar es Salaam, in November.

Prof. Makame Mbarawa has said that the purpose of the DRC Minist… read more

• Flights
• 06/11/2022 19:24

South African Airways adds capacity and new destinations

South African Airways (SAA) is adding three Airbus A320s to its fleet. That will enable the airline to resume service to several African destinations before restarting an intercontinental route in the first quarter of 2023.

South African Airways currently operates 7 Airbus aircraft, consisting of 2x A320s, 3x A319s, 1x A330-3… read more

• Flights
• 05/11/2022 07:35

South African Airways announces the addition of four regional destinations

South African Airways (SAA) has confirmed that the International Air Services Council (IASC) has ratified the airline’s retention of all its historical route traffic rights, following SAA’s voluntary relinquishing of the number of frequencies on the destinations it is not currently servicing. In accordance with legisl… read more

• Opinion
• 03/11/2022 20:18

Sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economies in 2022

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Niger, Rwanda and South Sudan, along with the island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius, are set to be sub-Saharan Africa’s fastest growing economies this year, with each expected to record GDP growth of 6% or higher, according to the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections.

Looking ahe… read more

• Rail
• 23/10/2022 21:22

TAZARA traffic volumes surge on back of open access

The arrival of open access freight operations on the state-owned TAZARA Railway will not only boost traffic on the railway but also generate funds for much-needed maintenance, say private operators.

Trains have recently started running the full length of the 1,860km line following the reopening of the Chambeshi River bridge i… read more