Tourism has been one of the main sectors hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with an immediate effect following the extremely high health and safety alerts and the travel restrictions imposed by almost all countries around the world. As of […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted all destinations worldwide to introduce restrictions on travel, research by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has found. This represents the most severe restriction on international travel in history and no country has so far lifted […]

The coronavirus pandemic, which has plunged the global economy into recession, is hitting Ethiopia’s service sector hard, to a point where the government’s intervention is required for a possible 3 billion birr bailout, as reported by the Reporter, one of Ethiopia’s English […]

The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been contracted by millions of people around the world and claimed the lives of over 100,000. As a result, over a third of the world population is under a restriction of one kind or another. […]

Up to 20 million jobs in the formal and informal sectors in Africa could be lost because of COVID-19, according to a new study by the African Union. Released in early April, the study found that foreign direct investment (FDI), […]

It’s been called one of the most alien places on earth — a “gateway to hell” and, in the words of British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, a veritable “land of death.” The sulfurous hot springs, acid pools, steaming fissures and salt […]

The ministers voiced the crisis is deep and recovery will take much longer following the online meeting, held On 31 March 2020 In the context of the outbreak of the coronavirus in Africa, the second online meeting of the African […]

The International Air Transport Association strengthened its call for urgent action from governments in Africa and the Middle East to provide financial relief to airlines as the latest IATA scenario for potential revenue loss by carriers in Africa and the […]