Africa

The Malian city couldn’t be further away from the myth, finds Will Brown

Its troubled decades are over, but where are the tourists?

Will Brown, The Economist’s west Africa correspondent, seeks a beer in Mauritania

Now Niger is cracking down on the migrant trade, could the tourists come back?

An appreciation for the beautiful game can smooth over difficult situations

Zimbabwe’s economic troubles make foreigners nervous of going there. Which means, as Samantha Weinberg discovered, that its richly stocked game parks and top-class lodges are mercifully free of human hordes

The Sahara’s rock art is astonishing – and endangered. Ferdinand Saumarez Smith went to Chad to help preserve humanity’s ancient history

According to Daniel Knowles, The Economist’s Africa correspondent, the story behind a failed Chinese investment is stranger than it seems