AU set to introduce African Passport next month

By: Ikenna Oluka

​The African Union (AU) will next month (February) reveal the design of an African Passport for all African countries, bringing the continent one step closer to free movement.

The African Union Commission will present details concerning the design, production, and issue of the Passport at the 32nd African Union Summit in February 2019.

Travelling across Africa is about to become a lot easier with the arrival of the new African Union passport.

According to the Chairperson of the Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, the details of the long-awaited single passport for all African travellers will be revealed next month. 

He made this important announcement in his New Year’s Message writing “I am pleased to stress that, in February 2019, in Addis Ababa, at the 32nd Summit of our Union, the Commission will present, for adoption, guidelines on the design, production and issuance of the African passport.”