Visas still an impediment to travel across Africa: report

[Disir]

The report says 2018 is a landmark chapter in Africa’s regional integration efforts, especially with the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Single African Air Transport Market.

The two frameworks are major milestones toward the creation of a regulatory environment that promotes air connectivity and makes it faster, less expensive and easier for Africans to travel within Africa, it says.

Benin was found to have made the most progress in opening up its borders to African travelers this year, subsequently jumping from 27th place in 2017 to the number one spot in 2018.

Rwanda, one of the first countries that opened up their borders to all African travelers through its visa-on-arrival policy, is ranked third on the aspect of openness and ninth in reforms undertaken this year, according to the latest Africa Visa Openness Index Report.
Visas still an impediment to travel across Africa: report

You have to be able to do business.

 

[frigidweirdo]

The report says 2018 is a landmark chapter in Africa’s regional integration efforts, especially with the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Single African Air Transport Market.

The two frameworks are major milestones toward the creation of a regulatory environment that promotes air connectivity and makes it faster, less expensive and easier for Africans to travel within Africa, it says.

Benin was found to have made the most progress in opening up its borders to African travelers this year, subsequently jumping from 27th place in 2017 to the number one spot in 2018.

Rwanda, one of the first countries that opened up their borders to all African travelers through its visa-on-arrival policy, is ranked third on the aspect of openness and ninth in reforms undertaken this year, according to the latest Africa Visa Openness Index Report.
Visas still an impediment to travel across Africa: report

You have to be able to do business.

It's hard for them, they see people entering their country as a source of their own personal wealth, that's what running a country means, enriching yourself.

 

[anotherlife]

But you are writing that this is a regulatory environment. That doesn't sound good. Once upon a time, it was the USA that was the famous freedom for your business. No longer because of regulatory environments. In the 21st century, it will be Africa, which will be the last bastion of freedom for your business. And this is pulling it down.