According to the South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya and South Sudan have both agreed to drop the visa fees for their citizens.
In the past, citizens travelling between the two countries were required to pay a visa fee of $50 (5,397 Kenyan Shillings). That system will however come to an end in October.
The agreement which was reached last week between South Sudan’s Interior Minister; Michael Chengjiek and the Interior Minister for Kenya; Fred Matiang’i, will allow the citizens of both two countries to travel between Kenya and vice versa, without paying visa fees.
South Sudan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson; Mawien Makol Ariik, made it known that “There was a meeting between South Sudan’s interior minister and his Kenyan counterpart to waiver visa fees for citizens of both countries. The committee from Kenya came to Juba to sign the agreement which will commence in October this year.”
With the decision, Kenya has now become the third country in the East African Community (EAC), to grant South Sudan free visa status.
Other countries who have offered South Sudan the Visa free status, are Rwanda and Tanzania.
