I'm most of the way through a south- north trip at the moment and the followingg is my experience (Australian passport holder)
- all visas from South Africa upto Tanzania (including Mozambique) available at border.
- Kenya now requires you to use their online system to pre organise their visa
- East Africa Tourist Visa (3 month multi entry) is now available covering Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and at $100 it is half the price of buying the three separately - but first entry has to be which ever country you bought it from. For Rwanda you can pre organise on line, the other two countries require an embassy visit in one of your preceding countries (and for Kenya at least not all embassies are currently able to issue this visa )
- Ethiopia. The advice that you must get it from your own home country is largely true. However the Nairobi embassy is known to occasionally make exceptions if you are willing to be politely persistent. Last week I met a Dutch man who had succeeded there- but it took him a week and a half of stress.
- Sudan. Full tourist visa (1 month) can be obtained in Nairobi but process is slow and requires a letter of invitation which has to be obtained from a Sudanese travel agency at some cost and time. I met one person in Nairobi for whom the whole process took nearly 3 weeks (not certain if he had any special issues causing delay). Alternative is to get 2 week transit visa, these are issued quite quickly without a letter of invitation required, but do need you to get Egyptian visa first. Not certain about their availability in Nairobi, I got mine in Ethiopia.
Egypt. I was advised by another traveler that the Nairobi Egyptian embassy wouldn't issue him one and simply told him to get it at the embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I didn't check to see if that was correct but simply followed that advice.

Getting the Egyptian and Sudanese transit visa in Addis takes one week, 3 days for the Egyptian followed by 2 days for the Sudanese, so you can do it Monday to Friday.

Hope this helps

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