Month: May 2026

~15 km west of Ndola city centre; ~16 km to Kitwe · Copperbelt Province · Visa · ZMW Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport (NLA) — Airport Guide 2026 Opened on 7 October 2021 and built by AVIC International at a cost of around US$397 million, NLA replaced the old in-town Ndola airport to serve Zambia’s … Read more

~13 km northwest of Blantyre · Southern Region, Malawi · MWK Chileka International Airport (BLZ) — Airport Guide 2026 Chileka serves Blantyre — Malawi’s commercial capital and second city — with a single compact terminal, three carriers, and a route map weighted toward Johannesburg and Addis Ababa. The headline change for 2026 is at the … Read more

Omagwa · Rivers State — ~30 km northwest of Port Harcourt city · NGN Port Harcourt International Airport (PHC) — Airport Guide 2026 Nigeria’s e-visa platform went live on 1 May 2025 — there is no visa-on-arrival at PHC, and that catches enough travellers out to lead with it. Quick Reference IATA / ICAOPHC / … Read more

~8–10 km north of central Kano · Kano State, northern Nigeria · Nigeria e · NGN Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN) — Airport Guide 2026 Nigeria’s oldest commercial airport, with operations dating to 1936, KAN is the main gateway for northern Nigeria — and the international board it runs reflects that honestly: the flights … Read more

~15 km northeast of central Lubumbashi · Haut-Katanga Province · Required in advance for · CDF Lubumbashi International Airport (FBM) — Airport Guide 2026 FBM’s single runway is closed to air traffic Thursday through Sunday between 16 April and 16 July 2026, as part of a full rehabilitation to ICAO Code E standard — making … Read more

North of Hahaya village · Grande Comore; ~20 km from Moroni · On arrival, all national · KMF Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (HAH) — Airport Guide 2026 The single international entry point for the Union of the Comoros, HAH sits on Grande Comore, 20 km north of the capital Moroni, and handles a weekly … Read more

~8–11 km northwest of central Bujumbura · on the RN5 · BIF Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport (BJM) — Airport Guide 2026 BJM has been under a Chinese-financed two-phase expansion since August 2024, night operations are suspended while construction runs, and for most foreign arrivals it is the only way into Burundi — there is … Read more

Inside the city · ~4 km from central Khartoum (Blue/White Nile confluence) · Required; e · SDG Khartoum International Airport (KRT) — Airport Guide 2026 Khartoum International reopened in February 2026 after almost three years of war closed it — and it reopened into a country that the US, UK, and France all formally tell … Read more

~37 km southwest of Harbin city centre · Heilongjiang Province · 240 · CNY Harbin Taiping International Airport (HRB) — Airport Guide 2026 Harbin Taiping handled about 24.7 million passengers in 2025 — China’s 22nd-busiest airport — and the large majority of its international arrivals are headed to a park built from ice that exists … Read more

Lungi · north shore of the Sierra Leone River estuary; Freetown on the peninsula to the south · On arrival US$80 cash; e · SLE Freetown International Airport (FNA) — Airport Guide 2026 The airport is at Lungi, the city across the estuary — and there is no bridge. That single geographical fact determines the … Read more

Required for most nation · DJF Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport (JIB) — Airport Guide 2026 In February 2026 the African Development Bank issued a financing guarantee for a replacement airport at Bicidley, 50 km from the capital — a meaningful milestone, but Ambouli remains the only working civil airport in Djibouti, sharing a single runway with … Read more

Pointe-Noire · Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) · Required in advance for · XAF Agostinho-Neto International Airport (PNR) — Airport Guide 2026 Pointe-Noire is the Republic of Congo’s oil capital, and PNR’s traffic reflects that: the boarding gate crowd skews toward oil-company rotations, regional business, and the Air France link to Paris rather than anyone … Read more

~27 km south of Yaoundé city centre · Centre Region · CFA Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (NSI) — Airport Guide 2026 Cameroon runs two airports that matter: Nsimalen serves the political capital, and Douala International on the coast handles the majority of the country’s passenger and freight volume. That split is worth knowing before you … Read more

Republic of the Congo · CFA Maya-Maya International Airport (BZV) — Airport Guide 2026 The Republic of the Congo’s main international gateway sits 3–6 km from central Brazzaville — one of the shortest airport-to-city distances in Central Africa — which makes the visa and yellow-fever requirements all the more worth sorting before you board. Quick … Read more

Estuaire Province · ~11–15 km from Libreville city centre · XAF Léon-Mba International Airport (LBV) — Airport Guide 2026 Léon-Mba is the only serious international gateway into Gabon — a compact airport by any hub standard, built in the 1950s, handling Air France and Ethiopian and the West African regional network from a single asphalt … Read more