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The government of Tanzania has ordered additional jets for its national flag carrier, Air Tanzania, supporting its network expansion plans. The airline will receive three jets; one Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and two Boeing 737 MAX jets. Air Tanzania plans to expand services from the country to new markets across Africa, Asia and Europe. “Our flagship…
The development of two of Malawi’s ecologically-crucial wilderness areas, Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve – which form part of the Nyika-North Luangwa section of the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area – is “progressing in leaps and bounds”. This according to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Wildlife, Dr Michael Usi, who visited the parks…
A remarkably well-preserved fossil elephant cranium from Kenya is helping scientists understand how its species became the dominant elephant in eastern Africa several million years ago. Dated around 4.5 million years old and recovered from a site on the northeast side of Lake Turkana, it is the only well-preserved elephant cranium — the portion of…
Eastgate Airport near Hoedspruit, which serves as a gateway to Limpopo’s safari destinations, completed a R20 million (€1.13m) upgrade this month. A spokesperson for the airport told Tourism Update that, with an average of 150 monthly flights and over 7 000 passengers passing through its gates in any given month, Eastgate needed an upgrade to better service…