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 Uganda
What each African passport needs.
No visa
up to 6 months · 1 country
South Sudan
No visa
up to 90 days · 20 countries
Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius
Apply online first
USD 50 · 31 countries
All others: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea
Apply online at least 3 days before you travel and bring a printed copy. You can't get a visa at the airport.
Sources disagree
1 country
Angola
Uganda's official list of visa-free countries doesn't include Angola (checked 2 October 2026), but other sources still say Angolans don't need a visa. To be safe, apply for Uganda's e-Visa before you travel, or ask a Ugandan embassy.
Good to know
- Somali citizens need a biometric passport (the newer kind with a chip, shown by a small camera-like symbol on the cover).
Official sites: visas.immigration.go.ug, immigration.go.ug. Lists from Visa policy of Uganda, checked 2026-11-05. Covers ordinary passports only.
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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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