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September 2026 (47)

2026-09-27 Uganda's Ebola all-clear was not an event. It was a queue, and Friday was the first name off it.Big Read
2026-09-26 Ethiopia's north went dark in a night. East Africa's exposure is the map, not the airport.Big Read
2026-09-26 The AI agent will book your room. It will still buy it from an OTA.Big Read
2026-09-26 Ethiopia's Heritage North Is Now Off-limits.Evening Wrap
2026-09-25 East Africa knows how wet this season will be. It does not know what its cover is worth.Big Read
2026-09-24 Hilton promised owners their margin back. In East Africa, the state decides whether it arrives.Big Read
2026-09-23 East Africa's hotels no longer set the price of their own staffBig Read
2026-09-23 AFCON 2027 will be priced, not filledBig Read
2026-09-23 Caf Found Afcon's Room Problem Upcountry.Evening Wrap
2026-09-22 From Sunday, Europe stops taking East Africa's lodges at their wordBig Read
2026-09-22 Kenya Gave Its Tourism Levy Trustees Three-year Terms on 18 September, a Day after Operators Fought the Fee Schedule.Evening Wrap
2026-09-21 Kenya's tourism sector just broke a revenue record. Its own tourists couldn't afford to be part of it.Big Read
2026-09-21 East Africa is building rooms faster than it is selling 2027Big Read
2026-09-21 79.5% of Kenya's 6,190 Pipeline Rooms Are Already Under Construction, and the 2027 Trade Is Being Sold in Paris Now.Evening Wrap
2026-09-20 Kenya built its quality marks by going door to door. The new rules put a price on them.Big Read
2026-09-20 Kenya's grid got cheaper. Leaving it got harder. Both happened in the same week.Big Read
2026-09-20 Your Power Bill Fell This Month.Evening Wrap
2026-09-20 Uganda was declared Ebola-free on 25 August.Sunday Foresight
2026-09-19 East Africa's route map is being rebuilt. The fares are set somewhere else.Big Read
2026-09-19 The US entry ban on Uganda is now printed law with a comment box attached.Evening Wrap
2026-09-18 Africa's hotels adopted AI first. Now comes the hard part.Big Read
2026-09-18 Africa's hotels adopted AI faster than anywhere on earth.Morning Brief
2026-09-18 Kenya's operators spent Thursday arguing about the price.Evening Wrap
2026-09-17 Three inputs into your 2027 P&L moved overnight.Morning Brief
2026-09-17 Paris closed tonight.Evening Wrap
2026-09-15 Yesterday EPRA froze your fuel price.Morning Brief
2026-09-15 Uganda has been Ebola-free for 86 days and is still banned.Evening Wrap
2026-09-14 Tomorrow's headline will be "fuel prices unchanged".Evening Wrap
2026-09-13 This morning we said Washington now lists Uganda for what might happen.Evening Wrap
2026-09-13 Uganda is Ebola-free and still banned.Sunday Foresight
2026-09-12 Nairobi's CBD Is Out of Bounds Tomorrow.Evening Wrap
2026-09-11 Four Statistics Offices.Morning Brief
2026-09-10 Indigo Has Filed the Mumbai–dar Schedule.Morning Brief
2026-09-10 Kenya Has Activated an El Niño Contingency Plan for October–december.Evening Wrap
2026-09-09 Exclusive — Canada Put Kenya on Its Dengue Watchlist Yesterday.Evening Wrap
2026-09-08 WHO Is Provisioning 2,071 More Ebola Beds.Morning Brief
2026-09-08 East Africa No Longer Has One Cost Base.Evening Wrap
2026-09-07 The three calendars that price an East African property — and why most rate cards only use oneGuide
2026-09-07 Your comp set is probably wrong — and East Africa's construction pipeline is about to prove itGuide
2026-09-06 A split now visible in South African itineraries that East Africa should expect to import.Evening Wrap
2026-09-06 You are now priced on the quality of your records, not your assets.Sunday Foresight
2026-09-05 Ethiopian Airlines has filed to more than double its Addis–Kilimanjaro–Zanzibar service from 30 November.Morning Brief
2026-09-05 Tonight, the Bill in committee that changes who collects your levy, who decides how it is spent, and who counts your guests.Evening Wrap
2026-09-04 Tanzania is still banned from EU skies.Morning Brief
2026-09-03 Uganda got its all-clear eight days ago.Morning Brief
2026-09-01 The JKIA strike is over.Morning Brief
2026-09-01 Tonight, the thing 26 days out that almost nobody here has diarised.Evening Wrap

August 2026 (68)

2026-08-31 JKIA is delayed, not closed — and that distinction is worth money to you today.Morning Brief
2026-08-31 This week's results all say the same thing: bigger top line, worse unit economics.Sunday Foresight
2026-08-28 Off-slot, because tomorrow morning Uganda closes its roads — and your guests are exempt, which the advisory pages do not yet tell you.Daily brief
2026-08-28 The Mainland Just Overtook Zanzibar on Yield.Midday Pulse
2026-08-27 Uganda holds the WHO's certificate.Evening Wrap
2026-08-26 Google searches now end with zero clicks 68% of the time.Evening Wrap
2026-08-25 Special — We Read Kenya's 2025 Tourism Report Line by Line.Daily brief
2026-08-25 A Court Suspended Kenya's US$50,000 Tourist Insurance Rule on 21 August — the Trade Only Noticed Yesterday.Midday Pulse
2026-08-25 The cleanest natural experiment in hotel pricing we have seen this year was published today.Evening Wrap
2026-08-24 Jambojet Returns to Entebbe — Daily, from 1 October.Evening Wrap
2026-08-23 Tanzania Is Now Power-long.Evening Wrap
2026-08-23 Four stories this week.Sunday Foresight
2026-08-22 The Ebola Vaccine that Won't Lift Uganda's "do Not Travel".Evening Wrap
2026-08-21 Your Growth Guest Boards in Kinshasa, Not London.Morning Brief
2026-08-21 MPs Move Against the KTB Super-merger — and the Ministry Reaches for the Levy.Evening Wrap
2026-08-20 Seven Killed in Samburu Safari-helicopter Crash — KCAA Investigating.Morning Brief
2026-08-20 DRC Ebola Passes 5,000 Cases — WHO Emergency Committee Reconvenes 18 Aug.Midday Pulse
2026-08-19 Your Fastest-growing Guest Is Your Neighbour — and Your Government Is Taxing Them at the Base.Morning Brief
2026-08-19 Uganda's Hotel Brands Are Building Through a LEVEL-4 Trough.Evening Wrap
2026-08-18 The Coast Is Outgrowing the Gateway — and the National Number Hides It.Daily brief
2026-08-18 The Airlift You're Celebrating Is the Least Profitable in the World.Morning Brief
2026-08-17 Zanzibar was promised a port today.Midday Pulse
2026-08-17 The DRC outbreak became the deadliest in that country's history today.Evening Wrap
2026-08-16 Zanzibar's Record July Widened the Gap It Should Have Closed.Morning Brief
2026-08-16 Washington Already Writes Uganda in the Past Tense — and Keeps It Restricted Anyway.Midday Pulse
2026-08-16 The Vaccine Line Is No Longer Supportable — and the Release Number Rose.Evening Wrap
2026-08-16 The Theme: Your Pace Report Only Sees the Channel That's Shrinking.Sunday Foresight
2026-08-15 You Got SH5 Off Diesel.Morning Brief
2026-08-13 The US Renewed, and Uganda Stayed Coupled.Morning Brief
2026-08-13 Rwanda Is Buying Yield, Not Volume — and Airlift Is the Catch.Midday Pulse
2026-08-12 The US Ebola Entry Order Expires Today — Renew or Lapse by 4:59PM Edt.Morning Brief
2026-08-12 Eastleigh and Kibera Are Now "do Not Travel".Midday Pulse
2026-08-11 The airlift East Africa is banking its 2026 arrivals on is being flown by carriers earning 40 US cents a passenger.Morning Brief
2026-08-11 The cost of entry is quietly rising across East Africa: a Tanzanian cashless-licence rule, a Kenyan US$50,000 insurance mandate, and Kampala's Marriott flagship on the doorstep — three shifts operators must price in now.Midday Pulse
2026-08-11 The Big Read: Amboseli's 16 elephant deaths are a reputational test, not a booking threat — how safari operators should read the cyanide probe without panic or silence.Evening Wrap
2026-08-10 East Africa keeps announcing record arrivals.Morning Brief
2026-08-10 Kenya just set an air-traffic record — and it was domestic travellers who set it, not the inbound long-haul market operators spend all their energy chasing.Midday Pulse
2026-08-10 THE BIG READ — Kenya's flat fuel price is a subsidy with an expiry date, not a stable cost.Evening Wrap
2026-08-09 The Guests Are Already Across the Border.Morning Brief
2026-08-09 THE BIG READ — The cranes are a promise.Evening Wrap
2026-08-09 Uganda beat Ebola.Sunday Foresight
2026-08-08 Forecast Check-in — Four Days to 12 August, and the Real Question Is Uganda.Morning Brief
2026-08-08 FORECAST CHECK-IN — the CDC order slot is still empty, and the DRC just crossed 4,000.Evening Wrap
2026-08-07 Forecast Check-in — Five Days to 12 August, and No Early Move.Morning Brief
2026-08-07 US: Kenya L2, Tanzania L3, Zanzibar L3, Uganda L4, Rwanda L3.Midday Pulse
2026-08-07 US: Kenya L2, Tanzania L3, Zanzibar L3, Uganda L4, Rwanda L3.Evening Wrap
2026-08-06 Today, the one call worth planning against, plus what's still true and next week's clock.Midday Pulse
2026-08-06 Washington just told you where it stands on Ebola — six days before the decision that sets the regional travel-risk narrative into September.Evening Wrap
2026-08-05 The Ebola number that changed overnight — and why there are now two dates to watch, not one.Morning Brief
2026-08-05 Since this morning's Ebola brief — so here's what we re-checked at midday, and what's moving underneath.Midday Pulse
2026-08-05 One story tonight worth planning against — plus two dates on next week's clock.Evening Wrap
2026-08-04 Here's the week that decides three of our standing calls, plus what's still true and moving underneath.Morning Brief
2026-08-04 One new story clears the gate since this morning — and it lands on the coast.Midday Pulse
2026-08-04 Two things tonight: a correction, and a supply signal you can plan against.Evening Wrap
2026-08-03 Here's what's still true, what's moving underneath, and a forecast call of ours that lands today.Morning Brief
2026-08-03 Here is the check nobody else runs — our own forecast, audited against today's numbers — plus what is still true underneath.Midday Pulse
2026-08-03 The evening does what the calendar forces: it puts a clock on the one decision that actually moves Uganda's bookings — and audits a forecast that just landed.Evening Wrap
2026-08-02 Kenya just posted the region's steepest cost print — and the gap with its neighbours is now a rate-strategy problem.Morning Brief
2026-08-02 Since this morning — so we went back through the open forecasts, and found one.Midday Pulse
2026-08-02 Tonight we do the more useful thing — audit the story everyone thinks they're reading.Evening Wrap
2026-08-02 The week the risk map flipped — from contagion to cost.Sunday Foresight
2026-08-01 Reading a travel advisory: what actually moves bookingsGuide
2026-08-01 The East African hotel tech stack — payment costs, PMS fit and where AI pricing actually worksGuide
2026-08-01 Sustainability compliance in East Africa — plastics, carbon and certification, without the hypeGuide
2026-08-01 Park and permit fees across East Africa: what to check before you quoteGuide
2026-08-01 OTA commission rates explained — what a hotel really paysGuide
2026-08-01 The cost side moved this weekend — and Uganda's bill landed hardest.Morning Brief
2026-08-01 Congo's outbreak just became a number your guests will Google — and it isn't in your country.Evening Wrap

July 2026 (20)

2026-07-31 Two upstream signals overnight, both about where East Africa's next room-nights come from: Rwanda quietly put a named boss over the city it's building around its new airport, and Zanzibar has fixed th.Morning Brief
2026-07-30 Uganda is clean.Evening Wrap
2026-07-29 We told you 27 August.Morning Brief
2026-07-28 The strike that was due to hit JKIA this morning isn't happening.Morning Brief
2026-07-28 Washington left a door open for East Africa.Evening Wrap
2026-07-27 One story moved over the weekend, and it moved hard.Morning Brief
2026-07-27 Friday's licence row has become a relocation.Midday Pulse
2026-07-26 Ownership, not occupancy, is the story this weekend — a Swiss buyer is moving on the region's largest camp group while Zanzibar's demand curve quietly flattens.Morning Brief
2026-07-26 Nairobi's supply story just gained a second act — and this time the lender holds the keys.Midday Pulse
2026-07-26 The week the region's best growth market and its worst health risk turned out to be the same country.Sunday Foresight
2026-07-25 Airlift into the region keeps expanding faster than most rate strategies assume — Emirates now lands in Nairobi three times a day.Morning Brief
2026-07-25 Uganda owns the midday tape: an Ebola all-clear in sight, a bigger airline network, and a 2027 MICE win worth pricing now.Midday Pulse
2026-07-25 The most consequential document in the Mara this season is not a migration forecast.Evening Wrap
2026-07-25 Uganda's Ebola clock ends around 27 August.Playbook
2026-07-25 This stopped being an advisory story and became an entry-rules story.Playbook
2026-07-24 Kenya's coast is outrunning the political noise, and Uganda is weeks from an official Ebola all-clear.Midday Pulse
2026-07-24 Kenya's security optics take another knock; Zanzibar's branded-luxury supply race accelerates.Midday Pulse
2026-07-24 Nairobi is about to absorb 1,500 new branded rooms this year — and the smartest operators are already repositioning.Daily brief
2026-07-24 Kenya's numbers just called the bluff on its politics — and there's a lesson in it for every owner heading into the 2027 cycle.Evening Wrap
2026-07-24 The US has moved Uganda to "do not travel".Evening Wrap