Africa Travel News

Watching video of the recent test flight from thousands of miles away in Central Florida, Marc Hagle imagined the G-forces pressing against his chest as the rocket motor ignited and the spaceship accelerated, just as he'd experienced in a simulator.

Travel Author Paul Theroux says he's done with Africa, the continent that has served as his muse and foil for decades.

President Obama is under fire for the price of the first family's upcoming weeklong trip to Africa, which could cost taxpayers as much as $100 million at a time of federal budget cuts and furloughs.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is being treated in hospital for a lung infection, is "doing very well", his daughter said on Monday.

Zolani Mkiva speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg South Africa in this image taken from TV , Monday June 17, 2013.

The Angsana Spa at the Wyndham Grand Regency Doha has recently been presented with the Platinum award for 'Best Spa' at the MENA Travel Awards 2013.

Africa Travel Week will take place in Cape Town South Africa and sees WTM Africa co-locate alongside fellow Reed Travel Exhibitions' events IBTM Africa and ILTM Africa.

Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center published results of a public survey of gay tolerance in 39 countries worldwide.

Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency - mounted an intensive spying operation on foreign politicians attending two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009, it has been reported.

The Muslim Lawyers Association in Johannesburg has called for the arrest and prosecution of President Obama for war crimes when he arrives in South Africa on June 29, the nonprofit said in a statement.

Morocco will cut subsidy spending by 20 percent to 42 billion dirhams or less in 2013 - depending on international commodities prices, the general affairs minister said on Friday, as an IMF delegation audits the country's finances.

When President Obama and the first lady travel to Africa at the end of this month, they will receive a rapturous greeting.

The Africa-based budget airline Fastjet, which currently operates flights in Tanzania, gained permission to fly into several international hubs on Friday.

Pierre Poitier wonders why he can't grow more veges in greenhouses, rather than import them from halfway across the world.

Regional presidents meeting at a special summit on Zimbabwe want President Robert Mugabe to delay crucial elections set for the end of July by at least two weeks, independent monitors said on Saturday.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a bit of an "oops" moment on Saturday when he mistakenly referred to the administration's response to the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi as occurring in Lebanon instead of Libya.

Eleven-year-old Asanda Jezile may not have walked away from the Britain's Got Talent reality show with the crown, but she has earned thousands of fans from around the world with her breathtaking performances.

Balloons, hand-prints and get well messages left by children from the "Ring-Ting" kindergarten lie outside the entrance to the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Friday, June 14, 2013.

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