{"id":187786,"date":"2025-01-03T01:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-ghana-scraps-visas-for-african-passport-holders-in-landmark-shift\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T01:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T23:17:59","slug":"africa-ghana-scraps-visas-for-african-passport-holders-in-landmark-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-ghana-scraps-visas-for-african-passport-holders-in-landmark-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Ghana Scraps Visas for African Passport Holders in Landmark Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><em> Ghana will allow visa-free entry to citizens of all African countries starting in early 2025. The move, approved by President Nana Akufo-Addo in December, makes Ghana the fifth African country to open its borders to all holders of African passports. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The decision follows through on a promise made by Akufo-Addo at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa<\/a> Prosperity Dialogues a year ago to enhance regional integration and ease movement across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana<\/a> provided visa-free access to citizens of 26 African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501020115.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will allow visa-free entry to citizens of all African countries starting in early 2025. The move, approved by President Nana Akufo-Addo in December, makes Ghana the fifth African country to open its borders to all holders of African passports. The decision follows through on a promise made by Akufo-Addo at the Africa Prosperity Dialogues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541937:317b6a882800e2ad6cb8265fae6a4572:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,4508,4509,22651,12583,257,4346,22788,13283,254,5767],"class_list":["post-187786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-holders","tag-landmark","tag-news","tag-passport","tag-scraps","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541937:317b6a882800e2ad6cb8265fae6a4572:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187786","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}