Destination Mombasa – a choice for conferences as much as for vacations
INTERNATIONAL RADIOLOGISTS AND PHARMA SUPPLIERS HEADING TO MOMBASA (Posted 29th May 2015) Readers will recall the scandalous news a few weeks ago when Skal International succumbed to fear and showed some real cowardice when the organization pulled their annual congress from Mombasa, which was due for October this year. The Skal congress’ headquarter hotel was […]
Good news for tourists from Uganda
TOURIST SAFETY RANKS TOP AS UGANDA ADDS A FURTHER 400 TOURISM POLICE OFFICERS (Posted 29th May 2015) Formally launched on 28th of February 2012 with an initial contingent of 120 officers, has the Uganda Tourism Police since grown in size. The Commandant of the Tourism Police, ACP Wilson Omoding, has now confirmed that a further […]
No 416 Wildlife Trade News: 28th May
Your daily dose of bad news … about the global poaching crisis, wildlife and environmental crimes of massive proportions … in the spotlight today …………………… Rhino horns seized in Mozambique’s ‘biggest bust’ stolen Cape Town – Sixty-five rhino horns that were seized in an operation heralded as "Mozambique’s biggest breakthrough in the war on illegal […]
Sun Africa Hotels launches new hotel management company in Kenya
THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO EXPLORE NEW OPPORTUNITIES (28th May 2015) In a breaking news development can it now be revealed that Sun Africa Hotels has branched out into hotel management with a new brand named ‘SUN 101’. The hotel group, managed on behalf of the owners by Mr. Rahul Sood, himself […]
Try again and try harder … as Kenya fails another CAT I audit
NO CAT I CERTIFICATION AS KENYA DOES BETTER IN FAA AUDIT BUT NOT WELL ENOUGH (Posted 28th May 2015) The results of the April 2015 audit about Kenya’s quest to achieve the coveted FAA Cat I certification for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have now appeared in the public domain as KAA’s Corporate Communications Department remained […]
Travel Africa Shamwari
Some splendid reads about Africa … In fact, some of the very best reads you can find about Africa! Welcome to another issue of our e-newsletter, Shamwari, for readers of Travel Africa magazine. Our ideas and we’ll add them to the Ideas Bank for everyone to share. Travel Africa Book Club Read any great Africa-related […]
Consolidation in Kajjansi? Read on to find out!
DID KAMPALA EXECUTIVE AVIATION ACQUIRE KAFTC’S ASSETS? (Posted 28th May 2015) A Kajjansi based aviation source yesterday evening confirmed a much speculated over acquisition which further consolidates Uganda’s airline sector. From this and previous reports it appears that Kampala Executive Aviation has acquired the assets of the Kampala Aero Club and Flight Training Centre, in […]
Latest News & Offers from Kenya
News from Porini Camps … Jake Grives-Cook makes a case why one should visit Kenya NOW and of course stay in the award winning Porini camps … enjoy the read and the pictures! View of Porini Lion Camp – image by Philip Edwards Jambo from all of us at Gamewatchers in Nairobi ! As our […]
Rhino deaths prompt suspension of relocation programme
RHINO RELOCATION TO SERA HALTED AFTER DEATH OF THREE EASTERN BLACK RHINOS (Posted 28th May 2015) The conservation fraternity in Kenya is in shock since news emerged yesterday that three of the Eastern Black rhinos which were relocated to the Sera Community Conservancy had died. Kenya Wildlife Service Corporate Communications Director Paul Udoto confirmed at […]
New Swiss / Kenyan training partnership goes ‘live’
NEW SWISS / KENYAN HOSPITALITY COLLEGE COMMENCES COURSES (Posted 28th May 2015) (Some of the BIHC faculty staff and students at last Saturday’s induction ceremony) As the Kenya Red Cross Society completes its first fifty years of service to the nation can the organization put another feather in its already richly decorated cap. A few […]
No 415 Wildlife Trade News: 27th May
And still more bad news … Depressing, isn’t it? Please note: Today’s news consists of current as well as recent news. in the spotlight today …………………… As Animal Poaching Surges, Organized Crime Plays Bigger Role Rhino horn and ivory trafficking may be the soft underbelly of international criminal syndicates, says law enforcement veteran. EXTRACT: “Some […]
Fourty Four and counting as this airline eventually eyes 50+ African destinations
TURKISH MAKES IT A WHOPPING 44 AFRICA DESTINATIONS (Posted 27thMay 2015) The addition of Bamako yesterday brought the number of Turkish Airlines’ African destinations to now 44, spread across 28 countries. This makes Turkish the largest foreign carrier in terms of destinations, only rivalled by African airlines like Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways at present. […]
United they fly, divided they fail …
GROUNDBREAKING AGREEMENT AMONG VANILLA ISLAND AIRLINES IN THE MAKING (Posted 27th May 2015) June 18th is D-Day for the national airlines of the Vanilla Island group, when they are expected to sign, what has been described, as a ground breaking cooperation agreement in the capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo. Among the signatories will be Air Seychelles, […]
Ngamba gets the thumbs up from Rotary
Ngamba Island recognized with Vocational Service Award The Rotary Club of Entebbe has awarded Chimpanzee Trust with the ‘Vocational Service Award 2014- 2015’, as the best vocational service for its extraordinary projects in providing services to communities neighbouring Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. This was during Rotary Club of Entebbe’s 20th anniversary celebrations. Since the establishment […]
Derek Houston’s latest Spotlight Workshops aim at Scandinavia
There is the saying about location, location and more locationbut equally is it true that one can add marketing, marketing and more marketing to it. The best location, without marketing, will not be known and good marketing can lift even a relatively poor location into the limelight. Derek, thorough as usual, gives potential attendees all […]
No 414 Wildlife Trade News: 26th May
The daily dose of bad news has returned … Please note: Today and tomorrow the news consists of current as well as recent news. in the spotlight today …………………… South African rhino named Hope after surviving horrific attack by poachers who left her with a 20-inch wound after hacking her horns off Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3096198/South-African-rhino-survives-horrific-attack-poachers.html#ixzz3bGWtBxa6 […]
IATA welcomes RwandAir into their ranks
RWANDAIR JOINS THE BIG LEAGUE AS IATA ADMITS THE AIRLINE AS A FULL MEMBER (Posted 27th May 2015) (IATA’s IOSA certificate for RwandAir) IATA’s Vice President for Africa, Mr. Raphael Kuuchi, flew to Kigali yesterday to officiate at the handover of the certificate for full IATA membership to RwandAir’s CEO John Mirenge, signifying another milestone […]
Kigali to Bujumbura flights due to resume tomorrow
RWANDAIR TO RESUME BUJUMBURA FLIGHTS AS OF TOMORROW 27TH OF MAY (Posted 26th May 2015) Rwanda’s national airline RwandAir has just confirmed that effective tomorrow 27th of May will flights to and from Bujumbura resume. Most airlines had suspended flights when the airport was closed as a result of the purported coup attempt but most […]
An unfulfilled dream …
CANADIAN MAN DIES ATTEMPTING TO FULFILL A LIFETIME DREAM OF SEEING THE GORILLAS (Posted 26th May 2015) (Bweza – the silverback of the gorilla group of the same name) A 75 year old Canadian man – his name known but respectfully withheld – reportedly collapsed and subsequently died yesterday while enroute to tracking Uganda’s prized […]
WTA moves to paradise island for the 2015 Africa award ceremony
WORLD TRAVEL AWARDS CEREMONY 2015 FOR AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS MOVES TO THE SEYCHELLES (Posted 26th May 2015) Africa’s Travel Oscar winners will this year be announced on the 20th of June at the Kempinski Seychelles Resort, together with the awards for the Indian Ocean islands. The Baie Lazare based resort, opened in […]
It is Vipingo via Ukunda at 173 USD return fare from Nairobi Wilson airport
SAFARILINK CONFIRMS ROUTING OF NEW VIPINGO SERVICE (Posted 25th May 2015) When the new service from Nairobi’s Wilson airport to the Kenya coast’s most fancied golf resort, Vipingo Ridge, was announced here two weeks ago, was the fare and the routing still under consideration by Safarilink. The airline has just confirmed that the flight will […]
Ferry company improves security with new scanners
LIKONI FERRY FINALLY LAUNCHES SCANNERS (Posted 25th May 2015) According to information received overnight from Mombasa has the Kenya Ferry Service company as of yesterday started using scanners which are for passengers boarding on foot and their bags or parcels they carry. While it may delay the boarding exercise, and there have already been such […]
Conservation remains a key component in Serena’s corporate philosophy
A BUTTERFLY RESORT ON SHANZU BEACH? SERENA IS THAT AND MUCH MORE! (Posted 24th May 2015) If I were to ask any of you ‘Which is the best butterfly resort on a Kenyan beach?’, almost all would probably scramble to their smartphones and tablets and frantically Google the topic and most perhaps still come up […]
Wasini Island – almost as set in another world
By Amina Ulrike Sabel Once Upon a Time – A day on Wasini Island I woke up at dawn; the sound of breaking sticks must have pulled me out of my dreams. l lifted my head just slightly from the pillow, peeping with sleepy eyes through the low, netted window – and there, in a […]
Mt. Kenya’s myths … is there a resident called ‘Ngai’ living up there?
Lillian Gaitho, in her Sunday contribution, is trying to get to the bottom, or perhaps more fittingly, to the peak of the myths surrounding Kenya’s highest mountain. In The High Dwellings of the God: Climbing Mt. Kenya Lying perhaps unjustly in the publicity shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro is Mt Kenya the second of Africa’s tallest […]
Fetafrik and Fashion – Mustafa Hassanali makes it happen in Victoria
FETAFRIK WITH A TWIST AS MUSTAFA HASSANALI BRINGS AFRICAN FASHION TO VICTORIA (Posted 23rd May 2015) Seychelles, politically, geographically and historically linked to Africa, every year celebrates FetAfrik, the festival marking Africa Day and celebrating the artistic, cultural and related achievements of artists the archipelago and from the African mainland. The exceptional beauty, diversity and […]
Reunion seen through your lense – and the winning photograph comes from …
‘A LOOK AT THE OCEAN’ – REUNION QUALITY TOURISM LAUNCHED PHOTO COMPETITION (Posted 24th May 2015) Fabulous prizes await the 20 selected winners of a photo competition which was just launched by Reunion’s Quality Tourism organization. They are keen to see your Reunion experience as YOU saw it through the lense of your camera, under […]
Mozambique’s airspace opens up for competition
LAM FINALLY GETS COMPETITION ON DOMESTIC ROUTES (Posted 23rd May 2015) Mozambique’s loss making national airline LAM, short for Linhas Aereas de Mocambique, will soon lose the monopoly it has enjoyed for a long time, after the regulatory authority MCAA announced earlier in the week that three new airlines have been licensed and are getting […]
Groundbreaking for new Ugandan SGR line expected in June
UGANDA SET FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE STANDARD GAUGE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION (Posted 23rd May 2015) After the Ugandan parliament approved a 13 trillion Uganda Shillings loan, sourced from the Chinese government, will work on the new Standard Gauge Railway commence next month. The Minister for Works Hon. John Byabagambi at the same time also confirmed […]
Daily JKIA – Lamu flights scaled back to just three per week. Read on to find out why!
JAMBOJET REDUCES LAMU FLIGHTS TO THREE A WEEK (Posted 23rd May 2015) Only two months after launching daily flights from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Lamu on the 28th of March this year, which are then returning via Malindi to Nairobi, have news emerged that Jambojet, Kenya Airways’ inhouse LCC, has apparently reduced the […]
