{"id":49178,"date":"2023-10-30T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-to-lift-visa-requirements-for-all-africans-president\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T08:34:42","slug":"kenya-to-lift-visa-requirements-for-all-africans-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-to-lift-visa-requirements-for-all-africans-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya to lift visa requirements for all Africans: president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By the end of this year, no African will need a visa to enter Kenya. The time has come to understand the importance of doing trade between us,&#8221; said Ruto, while speaking at the summit of the world&#8217;s three major forest basins, namely the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong Forest Basins, in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto noted the low rate of intra-African trade and urged to reduce customs tariffs within the African continent to accelerate the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is time we realize the importance of trading among ourselves and allowing goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across the continent,&#8221; he said, adding that trade among East African Community countries had grown significantly due to the removal of visa requirements and tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto said that acknowledging and providing incentives to countries in tropical forest basins for forest protection is a smart climate action.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon basin in South America, the Congo basin in Central Africa, and the Borneo-Mekong basin in Southeast Asia collectively constitute 80 percent of the world&#8217;s rainforests and contain approximately two-thirds of its biodiversity. These rainforests are not only vital for their local ecosystems but also play a global role in regulating the planet&#8217;s climate and sustaining life on Earth. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-60768\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/op-10.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan President William Ruto said on Saturday that Kenya will lift visa requirements for all Africans by the end of 2023.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan President William Ruto said on Saturday that Kenya will lift visa requirements for all Africans by the end of 2023 with the aim of boosting trade with African countries.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000060767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000060767,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f9iz_bwwgaamxye_1_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000060767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49178"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49178"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}