Saturday, March 19, 2016

Ghana visas for all African Union members


(Digital Marketing Agency) – Declared recently, Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, has introduced that his nation will problem visas to residents of African Union member states from July. Anybody arriving at a port in Ghana bearing a passport from an African Union nation might be granted a visa, which might be for as much as 30 days. President Mahama mentioned his new initiative was geared toward bridging the hole between African residents on the continent. He mentioned: "With impact from July this 12 months, we shall be permitting residents of AU member states to enter our nation and procure visas on arrival with the choice to remain for as much as 30 days and expertise what our nation has to supply. This measure, with time, ought to stimulate air journey, commerce, funding and tourism."

The African Union Fee chairperson recommended Ghana's efforts in serving to to convey Africa nearer collectively and decreasing obstacles to journey. She stated: "After Ghana, I'm satisfied that many different African nations will observe swimsuit, within the curiosity of reaching an built-in, affluent and peaceable Africa." She added that the brand new visa coverage would vastly profit Ghana in its relations with different African international locations. She stated extra nations wanted to observe Ghana's instance. Solely 25 per cent of nations in Africa provide visas on arrival to different African nationals. This implies it's really simpler for U.S. residents to journey to and inside Africa than it's for Africans to go to one another's nations.

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