Standing regional desks · Five sub-Saharan and North African regions
Regions
The Corridor organises its coverage around five standing regional desks. East Africa, Southern Africa, North Africa, West Africa and Central Africa now all publish actively, with the West Africa and Central Africa desks launched in May 2026. Each desk applies the publication's six analytical lenses to the specific tourism architecture of its region — the connectivity it depends on, the political economy that shapes it, and the global flows that pass through it.
The Corridor's regional desks
Five regions
East Africa
Active · 7 issues
The most analytically active African tourism region of 2026. The visa-free pivot, the gateway competition between Nairobi and Addis Ababa, and the Mara migration crisis. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia.
All six lenses covered · Founding region
Southern Africa
Active · 4 issues
Where The Hague, the diesel pump, the regional aviation market and the Boko diversification strategy intersect. The publication's most diplomatically and economically textured beat. South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe.
Conflict · Economics · Connectivity · Policy covered
North Africa
Active · 2 issues
Casablanca's gateway ambitions are reshaping the continent's mobility corridor. Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia each operate distinctive tourism architectures inside Mediterranean political economy.
Connectivity covered · More to follow
West Africa
Active · 1 issue
The CFA franc question, the Gulf of Guinea connectivity gap, Lagos as a global city, ECOWAS political instability and the tourism flows shaped by all four. Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and beyond.
Senegal covered · Issue 012 published
Central Africa
Active · 1 issue
The Congo Basin. Conservation finance, gorilla tourism, the Virunga model of outsourced sovereign architecture, and tourism economics in fragile states. DRC, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo and beyond.
DRC covered · Issue 013 published
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