African news. What capabilities do we have as Africans to tour the world if you are from Africa while holding an African passport. Which African passport is the most powerful when it comes to freedom and access in 2023? We have the answer here:
Passport Index wrote that this year the African country with the most powerful passport in 2023 is Seychelles (29th with 153 points) and Mauritius (34th with 146 points) which can claim to have the most powerful African passports.
Here’s a list of African countries’ passport ranking from the most powerful to the least access in mobility in 2023:
- Seychelles
- Mauritius
- South Africa
- Botswana
- Lesotho
- Namibia
- Tunisia
- Eswatini
- Malawi
- Morocco
- Kenya
- Zambia
- Cape Verde
- Tanzania
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Uganda
- Rwanda
- Zimbabwe
- Sierra Leone
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Gabon
- Senegal
- Cote d’vore (Ivory Coast)
- Mozambique
- Madagascar
- Equatorial Guinea
- Egypt
- Niger
- Guinea
- Angola
- Mauritania
- Togo
- Algeria
- Mali
- Guinea- Bissau
- Comoros
- Chad
- Central African Republic
- Liberia
- Djibouti
- Cameroon
- Burundi
- Congo
- Congo (Dem. Rep)
- Sudan
- Nigeria
- South Sudan
- Ethiopia
- Eritrea
- Libya
- Somalia
Many Africans are being encouraged to travel locally and to experience what different African cultures have to offer and also to find out what could be similar.
Kenya declared in 2022 that the next year would see Kenyans enter South Africa visa free and already troves have started touring the Cape regions. that We wrote about it here: Kenyans to now enter South Africa visa-free from January.
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Source: Passportindex.org