By Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged African leaders to adopt a visa-free regime to promote easy travel within the continent.
During the Afro-Heritage Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, the NDC flagbearer highlighted the significance of this policy in enhancing regional integration and boosting economic development.
The former President also suggests that by eliminating travel barriers, African nations could unlock new opportunities for trade, investment, and collaboration, thereby fueling socio-economic development across the continent.
“How can you develop as a continent when you can’t travel to each other’s countries? In the European Union, they don’t need a visa to go from Belgium to Scandinavia. In the U.S., they don’t need a visa to go from New York to California. In Africa, we shouldn’t need a visa to go from Ghana to Ethiopia. And so we are moving in the right direction, but I think that time is not on our side.
“We have a growing youthful population that is impatient with the pace of opportunities that we are creating for them.”
