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.
Pick your passport and where you're going to see exactly what you need, with the full list of who gets in visa-free, who gets a visa on arrival and who must apply first.
Needs one
Seychelles
Compulsory for everyone
Needs nothing
Rwanda
No visa for any African passport
Your passport
Where you're going
Choose your passport to see your own answer, or read the rules for every passport below.
Entering Comoros
What each African passport needs.
Visa on arrival
EUR 30, cash
Every African passport
Everyone gets a visa at the airport when they land, for up to 45 days. You need to show a ticket out of Comoros.
Lists from Visa policy of Comoros, checked 2026-10-13. Covers ordinary passports only.
Rules change often
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Join Aerial ViewAll 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
This page is a starting point for planning, not legal or immigration advice. Always confirm with the destination country or your airline before you travel.
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