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Organisers of this year's FIFA World Cup have described the latest figures pointing to an increase in the number of people visiting South Africa since the beginning of the month as encouraging.

This comes as immigration authorities announced on Tuesday that more than 450 000 foreign visitors have visited South Africa since the beginning of June. Home Affairs Deputy Minister Malusi Gigaba said

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A retired British couple have been released by Somali pirates after being held captive for more than a year.

Paul, 60, and Rachel Chandler, 56, from Kent, were seized from their yacht off the Seychelles in October 2009.

Mrs Chandler said: "I'm enjoying being free". The couple said they were fine, but will undergo medical checks.

On release they were taken to Adado, then Mogadishu, and ha

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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park, once known as a haunt for militias and a vicious Ugandan rebel group, is open for tourism, the park's main Western donor said.

Spain's ambassador to Congo, Felix Costales, told Reuters in a weekend interview that Garamba had opened a tourist camp funded by Spain at the end of May, with 10 lodges, and that armed

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The "Obama effect" of a US president with African heritage and the 2010 World Cup are boosting tourism in Africa, industry experts say.

"There has been a shift in the way people look at Africa," says the head of the UN World Tourism Organisation.

"Africa is now considered a very serious destination for travellers from the major generating markets," Taleb Rifai told a conference in Madrid.