{"id":184334,"date":"2024-11-10T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tourists-exempted-from-declaring-imei-numbers-for-gadgets-upon-arrival-says-kra\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T21:50:07","slug":"kenya-tourists-exempted-from-declaring-imei-numbers-for-gadgets-upon-arrival-says-kra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tourists-exempted-from-declaring-imei-numbers-for-gadgets-upon-arrival-says-kra\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Tourists Exempted From Declaring Imei Numbers for Gadgets Upon Arrival, Says KRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi Kenya \u2014 <em>The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has exempted tourists from the requirement to declare their gadgets&#8217; International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers upon arrival, to support tourism and ensure ease of access.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Tourism Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano, in a statement on Friday, emphasized Kenya&#8217;s role as a regional tourism and business hub, noting the need for accessible entry processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;KRA has announced that tourists will NOT be required to declare their gadgets&#8217; IMEI&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411080184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi Kenya \u2014 The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has exempted tourists from the requirement to declare their gadgets&#8217; International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers upon arrival, to support tourism and ensure ease of access. Tourism Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Miano, in a statement on Friday, emphasized Kenya&#8217;s role as a regional tourism and business hub, noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":184335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,11961,19690,29112,25115,49927,4688,430,28243,257,8967,254,2013],"class_list":["post-184334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrival","tag-declaring","tag-exempted","tag-gadgets","tag-imei","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kra","tag-news","tag-numbers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourists"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}