A Standing Department · Framework: Mobility Corridors
Connectivity & Aviation
Routes, alliances, hub strategy, open-skies progress and the institutional architecture that determines who reaches Africa and how. The continent is structurally more open to external aviation partners than to fellow African states. This department tracks why, and what it means for the destinations whose tourism economies depend on connectivity they do not control.
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Namibia rebuilds an airline its region cannot use.
Windhoek will spend N$3 billion to relaunch a flag carrier whose predecessor consumed N$11 billion before liquidation. The structural problem is not the airline. It is the absence of the regional aviation market that would give it scale.
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Casablanca builds the gateway. The continent's mobility corridor shifts north.
Royal Air Maroc has 10 new routes, a $1.6 billion terminal and 19.8 million arrivals projected for 2030. The strategic question is what the rest of the continent does in response, and how quickly.
Ethiopia is building the gateway. Nairobi has a tender.
A $12.5 billion airport in Bishoftu targets 110 million passengers. The Corridor Index is shifting toward Addis Ababa. Four moves Nairobi cannot defer if it wants to remain in the conversation.
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