Final call – entries for Africa Travel Week 2026 Media Awards close 16 January

Africa Showcase has expanded its 2026 global roadshow schedule in response to rising demand from African suppliers and international buyers.

African policymakers and partners have advanced a continent-wide Biodiversity for Resilience (B4R) Programme at a four‑day workshop in Maun, Botswana.

Conservationists are deploying mobile apps, acoustic sensors and AI to counter increasingly tech‑savvy poachers, with a new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and a formal alliance between EarthRanger and SMART highlighting tangible results.

Oasis Overland has entered into a new partnership with Hays Travel, the UK’s largest independent retail travel agency, strengthening its engagement with the UK travel trade and expanding distribution for its overland adventure programmes across Africa.

Sea levels around Africa’s coastline are rising faster, with rates reaching 4.34 mm per year since 2010 – more than four times the pace of the 1990s – according to a new peer‑reviewed study in Communications Earth & Environment.