{"id":189279,"date":"2025-01-22T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/kenya-offers-all-african-countries-eta-exemptions-except-somalia-libya\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:20:57","slug":"kenya-offers-all-african-countries-eta-exemptions-except-somalia-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/kenya-offers-all-african-countries-eta-exemptions-except-somalia-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Offers All African Countries eTA Exemptions, Except Somalia, Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya has granted Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) exeptions to all African countries except Somalia and Libya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">President William Ruto&#8217;s Cabinet cleared the new protocol on Tuesday excluding Somalia and Libya due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;This initiative aims to promote regional integration and ease travel across the continent,&#8221; the Cabinet Office stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/01\/cabinet-approves-parastatal-reforms-merging-42-entities-into-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cabinet approves parastatal reforms merging 42 entities into 20<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Most African visitors will be allowed a two-month&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501220164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has granted Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) exeptions to all African countries except Somalia and Libya. President William Ruto&#8217;s Cabinet cleared the new protocol on Tuesday excluding Somalia and Libya due to security concerns. &#8220;This initiative aims to promote regional integration and ease travel across the continent,&#8221; the Cabinet Office stated. Also read: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189280,"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":[891],"tags":[258,256,4380,6507,1992,19430,4688,4711,892,257,10997,4690,254],"class_list":["post-189279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-countries","tag-eta","tag-exemptions","tag-kenya","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-offers","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/189279","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}