Kenya improves on visa openness ranking; Report
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Kenya improves two positions on visa openness ranking across the African continent according to AVOI 2023
Kenya improves two positions on visa openness ranking across the African continent according to AVOI 2023.
Kenya is still the second least accessible country in East Africa for tourists, but it has risen two spots to rank 29 among African nations in the rankings.
According to the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) 2023, Kenya’s move to grant visa-free entrance to citizens of Djibouti and Mozambique has improved the continent’s overall position for visa openness.
Rwanda leads the region, followed by Burundi, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, according to an African Development Bank (AfDB) report.
This may be perhaps an indication of why President William Ruto abolished the visa requirement for visitors to Kenya effective January 2024.
Kenya’s visa openness ranking in Africa and globally is set to improve next year when the country removes the requirement of visas for all visitors coming to Kenya.
“Kenya’s improvement was to extend visa-free entry privileges to the citizens of Djibouti and Mozambique. However, both Kenya and Uganda still figure in the lower half of the AVOI’s country rankings AfDB says in the report.
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“Three East African Community member states—Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania—are among the AVOI’s top 20 performers this year. Indeed, Rwanda holds a perfect score.”
Kenya had last year fallen to position 31 from 28 in 2021 in the visa openness ranking, after the government-imposed travel restrictions to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Nationals of 32 countries require visas to enter Kenya while citizens of 19 nations on the continent do not require a visa.
The visa-free access, announced on Jamhuri Day, marks the latest effort to grow the number of tourists and business people jetting into Kenya from the 1,465,175 (excluding those in transit) who arrived last year.
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