{"id":189256,"date":"2025-01-22T04:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-ghana-amplifies-africas-visa-free-push-as-continental-integration-efforts-grow\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T04:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:09:15","slug":"africa-ghana-amplifies-africas-visa-free-push-as-continental-integration-efforts-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-ghana-amplifies-africas-visa-free-push-as-continental-integration-efforts-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Ghana Amplifies Africa&#8217;s Visa-Free Push As Continental Integration Efforts Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Ghana&#8217;s introduction of visa-free travel for all African passport holders is the latest shot in the arm for Africa&#8217;s push toward seamless cross-border travel and trade integration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">According to Henry Osabutey, a Ghanaian human rights, peace and conflict scholar and a Global Goodwill Ambassador of the SDGs by the Global Goodwill ambassadors Foundation, Ghana&#8217;s move reflects broader efforts to actualise the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Agenda 2063.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;This policy isn&#8217;t just about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210528.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&#8217;s introduction of visa-free travel for all African passport holders is the latest shot in the arm for Africa&#8217;s push toward seamless cross-border travel and trade integration. According to Henry Osabutey, a Ghanaian human rights, peace and conflict scholar and a Global Goodwill Ambassador of the SDGs by the Global Goodwill ambassadors Foundation, Ghana&#8217;s move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611930:cee970b847a10958c6d114bd9c777f71:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6287,25579,9133,6357,4508,4509,11916,6885,257,6354,254,20100],"class_list":["post-189256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-amplifies","tag-continental","tag-efforts","tag-ghana","tag-grow","tag-integration","tag-news","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visafree"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611930:cee970b847a10958c6d114bd9c777f71:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189256","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=189256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}