Rwandan President Paul Kagame has announced the abolition of entry visas for all African citizens.
The measure aims to boost the free movement of people and trade on the continent.
Paul Kagame said in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, that Africa is a unified tourist destination for a continent where tourism still depends 60 per cent on tourists from outside Africa.
The president was speaking during the XXIII Global Meeting of the World Travel and Tourism Council.
The Rwandan President assured that “any African can take a plane to Rwanda whenever they want and they won’t pay anything to enter the country”.
The head of the Rwandan state considers Africans to hold the future of global tourism, as the middle class will continue to grow at a rapid pace in the coming decades.
With this initiative, Rwanda will become the fourth African country to remove travel restrictions for Africans, after Gambia, Benin and the Seychelles.