Mahama advocates for visa-free travel in Africa

Ghanaian

John Dramani Mahama has urged African leaders to adopt a visa-free regime to facilitate seamless travel across the continent, emphasizing its significance in promoting regional integration and economic advancement.

Addressing attendees at the Afro-Heritage Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, Mahama highlighted the potential benefits of such a policy, envisioning enhanced trade, investment, and collaboration among African nations.

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"How can you develop as a continent when you can’t travel to each other’s countries? In the European Union, they don’t need a visa to go from Belgium to Scandinavia. In the U.S., they don’t need a visa to go from New York to California. In Africa, we shouldn’t need a visa to go from Ghana to Ethiopia. And so we are moving in the right direction, but I think that time is not on our side," he said.