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Global village: The Middle East crisis is no longer just a remote conflagration, South Africa is also affected by this distant geopolitical drama. Photo: fair.org
ABU DHABI

Middle East conflict reaches SA’s doorstep

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans in Israel to cross the land border into Jordan — one of the few remaining safe exit routes

  • Marlan Padayachee
7 min read
Kenya Airways Crew that Operated the Flight together with Hellen Mwariri, Chief Strategy and innovation officer and Alderman James Vos- Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, City of Cape Town. Photo: Supplied by Kenya Airways
AFRICA

Kenya Airways operates Africa’s first intra-African flight using 50% sustainable aviation fuel

The flight showcased several sustainability initiatives, including upcycled blanket bags, headset covers and reusable cutlery to cut down on waste

  • Mnaku Mbani
2 min read
The late minister Pravin Gordhan. Photo: Essa Alexander/Sunday Times
AIR A LUFTHANSA CONSULTING

Former DG wants ‘liar’ Gordhan held accountable for SAA deal

Kgathatso Tlhakudi said the allegations of an irregular selection process and the undervaluation of SAA assets to unfairly enrich selected ‘oligarchs’ should be spotlighted This…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
1 min read
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CHICAGO CONVENTION

How the pandemic can shake up African airlines for the better

By embracing a single African air transport market, the continent could grow the aviation industry, create more jobs and allow people to travel regionally.

  • Daniel Odido
3 min read
Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel, widely regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide, died in a hospital in Mali last weekend.(Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
1994

Africa in brief: 25 September – 2 October

In the round-up: The ‘architect’ of the Rwandan 1994 genocide dies; the Nigerian government kills its citizens and the Twitter ban is lifted

  • The Continent
4 min read
It’s a history littered with lessons and crumbs of what was to become the SAA privatised. (Oupa Nkosi)
AIR TANZANIA

Africa’s national airlines face troubled skies

The continent’s aviation industry won’t survive unless countries start cooperating with each other

  • Andrew Langford
4 min read
Ethiopian’s stunning commercial success casts its main rivals in a poor light. (Getty Images)
ABIY AHMED

Ethiopian Airline’s Achilles heel

Bole International Airport has struggled to keep pace with the airline’s rapid expansion. But that’s changing.

  • Simon Allison
3 min read
Kenya Airways and South African Airlines planes at sunset in Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
AVIATION

Think African jets are flying coffins? These numbers will prove you wrong

Carriers in the region have generally taken home a poor safety report card. Don’t write them off yet: there is real hope for the $70-billion industry.

  • M&g Africa
4 min read
JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Police questioned over looting during Nairobi airport fire

Kenyan investigators are questioning police and workers suspected of taking advantage of a fire at Nairobi’s main airport to steal cash and alcohol.

  • Sapa Afp
1 min read
High costs caused Kenya Airways’s pretax profit to plunge 57% in the full year that ended last March.
KENYA AIRWAYS

Court halts Kenya Airways’s retrenchment plans

A court has temporarily stopped Kenya Airways from retrenching its workers until a suit brought by their union challenging the layoffs is heard.

  • Reuters
1 min read
KENYA AIRWAYS

Fuel hedge losses plunge Kenya Airways into red

Kenya Airways posted its first annual loss on Friday in 13 years after unrealised losses on jet fuel price hedges hit the bottom line.

  • Duncan Miriri
3 min read
BOEING

Kenya Airways profit falls on election crisis

Kenya Airways said on Friday its 2007/08 annual profit after tax fell to 3,9-billion Kenya shillings from 4,1-billion due mainly to the impact of the East African nation’s…

  • Wangui Kanina
2 min read
ABUJA

Nigerian Senate slams South African crime

Nigeria’s Senate has passed a motion condemning a string of attacks on Nigerians in South Africa and ordered its foreign affairs committee to look into the matter urgently.…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CHRISTINA PRETORIUS

‘Taiping Four’ gorillas flying to Cameroon from SA

Four rare gorillas at the centre of a five-year international tussle are due to fly from South Africa just after midnight on Friday to a wildlife sanctuary in Cameroon. Tinu,…

  • Dennis Farrell
3 min read