{"id":220058,"date":"2018-05-26T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=220058"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:16:23","slug":"ethiopia-to-remove-visa-requirement-for-all-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/220058","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia to remove visa requirement for all Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced his government&#8217;s plan to remove visa requirements for all Africans who would like to travel to Ethiopia. The Prime Minister has made the announcement at a state dinner hosted for the visiting Rwandan President Paul Kagame last night.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?resize=780%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?w=873&amp;ssl=1 873w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?resize=800%2C532&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?resize=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?resize=810%2C540&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lifting visa requirements will bring more tourists, and facilitate increased trade between Africans, which will help the Ethiopian economy grow.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Rwanda has adopted a similar policy. And this year South Africa has lifted visa requirements for Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan policy goes even further. Anyone from anywhere in the world who travels to Rwanda gets visa-on-arrival. <\/p>\n<p>All African countries should take Rwanda&#8217;s and Ethiopia&#8217;s lead and remove travel restrictions for all people of African origin. It is an exciting news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced his government&#8217;s plan to remove visa requirements for all Africans who would like to travel to Ethiopia. The Prime Minister has made the announcement at a state dinner hosted for the visiting Rwandan President Paul Kagame last night. Lifting visa requirements will bring more tourists, and facilitate increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ethiopian-visa.jpg?fit=873%2C581&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-Vfk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220062,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220058\/revisions\/220062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}