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A growing middle class and a resources boom across Africa have fuelled the growth of the continent’s aviation industry. (Image source: Peter Russell)

Across the African continent, airlines are expanding by opening up new routes and revamping existing capacity to handle passengers and freight alike, writes Mwangi Mumero

Kenyan and Ugandan rail users are set to benefit from improvements in the network funded by international lenders. (Image source: US Army Africa)

Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the company that runs rail services in Kenya and Uganda, has received US$49 million to carry out infrastructure upgrades

Aviation accidents across Africa may have declined in 2011, but the continent remains top of the global accident league.

Statistics from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA) have shown a significant drop in air accidents in African airlines between 2010 and 2011

[From left to right] John Chirchir from Kenya Tourism Board, Etihad Airways chief commercial officer Peter Baumgartner and HE Abdul Razak Mohamed Hadi Al Awadi, UAE Ambassador to Kenya, celebrating the airline’s first flight to East Africa. (Image source: Etihad Airways)

Etihad Airways has launched it first passenger service to East Africa as part of its continent-wide expansion

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