First Independent Mena Newspaper
Starting in early 2025, Ghana will allow citizens from every African country to enter without a visa, following a recent authorization by President Nana Akufo-Addo. The president first pledged this policy at the Africa Prosperity Dialogues, framing it as a means to forge stronger continental ties and boost tourism, trade, and travel. Historically, Ghana permitted […]
Benin and Bahamas have established diplomatic and cooperation relations between the two countries and have waived visa requirements for all sorts of passports. Fredrick Mitchell, Bahamas’s Foreign Minister and Benin’s counterpart Olushegun Adjadi Bakari sealed the move on the sidelines of the third South-South Summit (G77 + China) held in Kampala, Uganda. In line with […]
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to establish a visa-free regime between the two countries, Sputnik reports citing a joint communique, which was signed by the parties on the eighth Uganda-DRC Joint Commission. “To this end, the two parties agreed to remove entry visa fees on reciprocal bases to facilitate free […]
Centre-right political party Afek Tounes, called on Tunisian authorities to re-impose visa requirements to Sub-Saharan migrants as part of measures to stem arrival of flows of migrants from South Saharan African countries who use the North African country as transit to reach Europe’s southern coasts. The party, “Webdo Tunis” reports, in a statement, also calls […]