An Aerial View travel guide
Do you need to apply before you fly?
A growing number of African countries now ask you to apply for entry permission online before you travel, even without a visa. Miss it and you can be turned away at boarding.
We track what each scheme actually asks for, so you can sort it out before you book, not after.
Needs one
Seychelles
Compulsory for everyone
Needs nothing
Rwanda
Visa on arrival, no pre-travel step
🇦🇴 Angola
Mandatory online e-visa (pre-visa) for non-exempt nationalities
Mandatory online e-visa (pre-visa) for non-exempt nationalities
Angola grants 90-day visa-free tourist entry to 14 named African countries (Tanzania, Eswatini, Morocco, Lesotho, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Algeria) under a 2023 presidential decree. All other African nationalities must obtain Angola's online e-visa/pre-visa before travel; work, study and business visas always require advance application regardless of nationality.
It's required for african nationalities outside the 14-country visa-free list, for any purpose beyond visa-exempt tourism.
Reported around USD120 payable on arrival for some categories; not confirmed for the standard tourist e-visa. Confirm on the Angolan e-visa portal.
Good to know
Angola moved from a highly restrictive visa regime to one of the more open ones on the continent within a few years, though most African nationalities still route through the mandatory e-visa rather than enjoying the visa-free list.
Sources
Still confirming: Confirm current e-visa fee and processing time from the official Angolan portal; Whether the 14-country visa-free list has changed since 2023; Whether any other African nationalities have since been added to the exempt list
Checked 2026-08-15.
All 54 countries we cover
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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Explore Aerial ViewRules change without much notice, and we recheck each one on its own schedule. Last updated 2026-09-19. This page is a starting point for planning, not legal or immigration advice, always confirm with the destination country before you travel.
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