This advice has been updated with new information regarding a security message issued by the US Government about the kidnapping risk in Niger’s Diffa region. The level of advice has not changed. Do not travel to Niger overall. Different levels apply in some parts of the country, including the capital, Niamey. Source: Smart traveller

The largest contemporary art museum in Africa opens on Friday as a ‘platform for Africans to tell their own story’ A week before its public opening, the social spectacle surrounding the preview of Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz-Mocaa) threatened to eclipse the art on display. There was a soiree hosted by…