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• Visa policies in Africa have improved, with Africans now being able to travel more easily across countries than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic
• Three countries, namely, Benin, The Gambia and Seychelles, offer visa-free entry to Africans from all other countries this year. In 2016 and 2017, only one country did so
• The vast majority of African countries – 48 out of 54 – now offer visa-free travel to the nationals of at least one other African country

A new report has shown that visa policies in Africa have improved, with Africans now being able to travel more easily across countries than it was before the COVId-19 pandemic.

The 2022 Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) report noted that African countries have been making progress in their freedom of travel policies, most of which had been severely curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis.

Visa polices in Africa improve significantly post COVID

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