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
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
None found, eVisa system, no separate pre-travel authorisation
None found, eVisa system, no separate pre-travel authorisation
No ETA found. Zimbabwe's eVisa platform lists 17 African countries as visa-free: Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Eswatini, Uganda and others. Nigeria is not on the list. Others use an eVisa or a visa on arrival.
It's required for nothing before travel for the 17 listed African nationalities.
It's optional for eVisa available as an alternative to visa on arrival.
eVisa fees vary by category and nationality. Not yet established.
Good to know
Nigeria is absent from Zimbabwe's visa-free list, making this the third country in the tracker where Nigerian travellers face a materially different route from their neighbours. Separately, Zimbabwean citizens now require an eTA for Ghana and Seychelles, which independently corroborates that Ghana's new authorisation captures non-ECOWAS African nationals.
Sources
Still confirming: Confirm the 17-country list directly on evisa.gov.zw; eVisa fee schedule by nationality; Processing time, reported as around seven working days
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.
Curious about the numbers behind the destinations? See Tourism at a Glance. Not sure what you can pack? See what you can't carry across Africa.