AFRICAN DIPLOMAT 🇰🇪🇳🇦

I've been wondering about something about Kenyan envoys abroad. Is it about their work, personality or communication of their work and engagements that determine their work rate? Take for example Amb Makoloo. Mans went to Austria and brought that mission to our attention. 1/

Facts about Ghana’s new Free Visas for Africans Policy as announced by President Mahama: 1) Africans will not pay visa fees; 2) Not paying visa fees does not mean you will not go through visa screening. Africans will still have to go through a visa application process like everyone else just that theirs would be gratis; 3) Government is also introducing an e-Visa policy next month; 4) The Free Visa for Africans is a component of the e-Visa initiative; 5) All applicants including Africans will have to apply for visas through the e-Visa platform; 6) The novel e-Visa system shall be linked to Ghana’s newly established API-PNR system and other international crime database which allows our consular officers to check background of applicants and provide appropriate vetting to ensure Ghana’s security is not compromised; 7) People with criminal or deemed unsatisfactory records will not be admitted into Ghana; 8) Not paying visa fees is not the same as automatic entry into Ghana. There shall be no automatic and unvetted entries. 9) Adequate investments have been made by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Transport to ensure a robust and technologically advanced architecture is in place; 10) For clarity, though former President Nana Akufo-Addo announced a Free Visa for Africans policy in 2024, that could not commence because the mechanisms and security safeguards had not yet been put in place. As President Mahama indicated yesterday, Ghana is now ready to launch an e-Visa platform for all applicants across the world and a Free Visa for Africans policy from Africa Day which is May 25, 2026 fully anchored on appropriate security and technological frameworks. May I wish you all a happy Easter. For God, Country and Continent.

It’s probably untrue, but it hasn’t stopped fellows from laughing at the story claiming that Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye is telling the masses that he competed with other leaders in an election to be “President of Africa” and won fair and square last week in Addis Ababa. Burundi peasants are allegedly praising him as a very tough man. Ndayishimiye assumed the rotating Chairperson of the African Union on February 15.