The government of Ghana has begun processes towards the implementation of a visa-free policy for all Africans this year, President Akufo-Addo has said.
Currently, Rwanda, Seychelles, The Gambia and Benin are the only African countries that provide visa-free entry for all African citizens.
Speaking at the opening of the 2024 Africa Prosperity Dialogue yesterday, Akufo-Addo said the government is committed to ensuring visa-free for all Africans.
He was speaking on the theme, “Developing Prosperity in Africa: Produce, Add, Value and Trade”
“Many of you had to acquire a visa to come to this event, we made a special arrangement for this conference, we reduced the visa acquisition fee by 50%, and we were thus able to receive your visa on arrival,” the president said.
“The government of Ghana is committed to ensuring visa-free for all Africans, for all Africans travelling into our country, and the process has begun to get the policy implemented this year,” Akufo-Addo added.
The three-day event ends on Saturday 27 January 2024 and will have as its overarching focus the need to propose concrete measures which will lead to Africans achieving prosperity for the African continent.
The APD, organised in close collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, based in the capital city of Ghana, Accra, will also seek to emphasise the unique opportunity that the AfCFTA offers Africa and her people to break free from the pervasive perceptions of poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment with which the continent is so often associated.
Five African heads of state and another from the Caribbean, as well as several top businesses and thought leaders from across the African continent and the diaspora are participating in the second edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues (APD), which is currently underway at the Presidential Lodge at Peduase, in the Aburi Hills of the Eastern Region.
