Gifty Danso
Kenya announced visa-free travel for all Africans last year, replacing visa requirements with an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) system, that was criticised in part as being "hectic"Ghanaian travellers to Kenya are now exempted from paying
Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) fees, Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
has announced.
According to a statement on Wednesday, the exemption of
Ghana was reached in recognition of the visa-free regime between both
countries.
Kenya announced visa-free travel for all Africans last year,
replacing visa requirements with an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)
system.
But the arrangement received backlash over concerns that the
new guidelines were "hectic" and "confusing", as even
countries that had previously had unrestricted access to Kenya had to pay a $34
processing fee and go through the same waiting periods for ETA approvals.
In April, to address some of these concerns, Kenya's
government granted 10 more African countries (including Ghana) exemptions from
paying ETA fees.