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Battlefield East Africa – Remembering the End of World War I

102 YEARS LATER – EAST AFRICA REMEMBRANCE WEEKEND (Posted 23rd November 2020) Remembrance for the fallen of World War I in Kenya will take place next weekend in the Taita / Taveta region, a part of the country which suffered the most during the 1914 to 1918 conflict which spread from the main battlefields in […]

Battlefield East Africa – another centenary event drawing close

COME CELEBRATE A HUNDRED YEARS OF FLIGHT IN KENYA (Posted 05th August 2015) Almost coinciding with this year’s Magical Kenya Travel Expo is the one hundredth anniversary of flight in Kenya, which will be celebrated on the 12th of October in the Taita Hills town of Maktau and the nearby Taita Hills Lodge. Built to […]

99 and counting – Battlefield East Africa

99 YEARS AND COUNTING – BATTLEFIELD EAST AFRICA (Posted 04th August 2013) When the guns opened up in Europe 99 years ago, on 28th July 1914, their thunder signaling the start of the Great War, later known as World War I, the German cruiser Koenigsberg on 31st of July slipped out of the harbour of […]

Battlefield East Africa

BATTLEFIELD EAST AFRICA 98 YEARS AND COUNTING By Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome June 2012 Little did Africa know, neither of nor about the outcome of the notorious Berlin Conference, when the greats of the world, or those who thought of themselves as greats at the time, grabbed an entire continent and divided it amongst […]

East African aviation update – A new battlefield for Embraer and Bombardier

BOMBARDIER VERSUS EMBRAER ON BATTLEFIELD EAST AFRICA Aircraft manufacturers, keenly aware of Kenya Airways growth plans for the next 10 years, have turned their focus now on the wider region, where ageing equipment used by a number of airlines needs replacing sooner rather than later, for reasons of sheer economics such as fuel burn and […]

Militants Take Cover Amid Elephants, Lions in West Africa’s National Parks

  (Posted 22nd November 2023)   Courtesy of African Elephant News / Stenews and Michael M. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal     Gunmen pulled 18 villagers from their homes during a night raid this spring, shooting some and slitting the throats of the rest. They wedged hand grenades under the bodies, laying a trap […]

#RemembranceWeekend in #Europe but not yet in #Africa

EUROPE COMMEMORATES THE GUNS FALLING SILENT 100 YEARS AGO AS AFRICA’S TURN STILL TWO WEEKS AWAY (Posted 10th November 2018) This weekend marks 100 years since the guns fell silent in Europe after the ‘armistice’ of truce was signed ending the First World War. In Africa, however, this still took a two further weeks till […]

#Tsavo Battlefields Committee plans to launch countdown on 14th of June

BATTLEFIELD EAST AFRICA REMEMBERED (Posted 31st May 2018) The Tsavo Battlefields Committee organising the November 2018 Commemoration marking the end of East African Campaign of 1914-1918 is preparing for the official launch in recognition and in remembering the forgotten of the First World War. The event is likely to generate substantially more interest than was […]

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War in #Africa

#BATTLEFIELDEASTAFRICA – BE PART OF THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF THE END OF WORLD WAR I (Posted 22nd December 2017) When James Willson Esq. wrote his book ‘Guerillas of Tsavo‘ was, unbeknown at the time, this correspondent also publishing a series of articles ahead of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, titled […]

New highway along the East African coastline gets financing

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK SETS ASIDE 289 MILLION US DOLLAR FOR NEW MALINDI – BAGAMOYO HIGHWAY (Posted 14th November 2017) The coastal road between Malindi in Kenya and the northern Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo is due to be transformed into a major highway, going by reports received from the African Development Bank.Africa’s development finance bank has […]

East Africa’s shrinking icecaps – a harbinger of climate change to come

‘SNOWS ON KILIMANJARO’ – NO LONGER AS HEMINGWAY SAW THEM (Posted 07th March 2016) When Ernest Hemingway wrote the short story ‘Snows on Kilimanjaro‘ in 1936 was the world as we know it today still largely intact. When in 1952 the story was turned into a film, starring such greats as Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner […]

A safari back in time to the battlefields of WW I in Kenya

BATTLEFIELD TOURISM COMES TO KENYA’S TAITA TAVETA COUNTY (Posted 13th October 2014) When the first article about the Battlefields of East Africa was published here, it was 98 years and counting, followed by another feature when it was 99 years and counting and ahead of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, […]

The day when Europe’s war came to East Africa

WORLD WAR I IN EAST AFRICA – BATTLEFIELDS REMEMBERED (Posted 28th July 2014) On the 28th of July 1914, when the Austrian empire’s army fired the first artillery volleys in preparation of a ground offensive against Serbia, was a chain of events put into motion which saw one world power after the other drawn into […]

African Development Bank clears loan for Voi – Arusha Highway

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK APPROVES LOAN FOR VOI – ARUSHA HIGHWAY A loan package worth over 232 million US Dollars has been approved by the African Development Bank to help finance the much awaited construction of a new highway, connecting the Kenyan town of Voi – located 100 miles along the Mombasa to Nairobi highway – […]

Final News Roundup of 2012 – from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands

AVIATION, TOURISM AND CONSERVATION NEWS from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. A weekly roundup of breaking news, reports, travel stories and opinions by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome You can get your daily breaking news updates instantly via Twitter by following @whthome, join me on www.facebook.com/WolfgangHThome where the articles also ‘cross load’ or […]

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome is the founder and publisher of ATCNews, Eastern Africa’s leading aviation, tourism and conservation news blog of its kind. Wolfgang has over 48 years of experience in the tourism, aviation and conservation fields in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, covering all aspects of safari-, hotel- and air-operations. 

The Managing Editor of ATCNews is Mrs. Esther C. Goossens.

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