Kenya Passport beats Uganda, Tanzania, gives Kenya citizens the most Visa-free destinations

Passports are travel documents a citizen of one country waves around like a magic wand at the gates of another country to get admittance. Humans being what they are, passports, we are aware are created equal, but as it turns out, some are more equal than others.

A website, Passport Index has taken the time to curate the passports of the world in order to show how many doors they can open. Naturally we distilled the information and made our own curation of East African passports. So, have you ever wondered how your national passport stacks up against others?

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Well, from the looks of things, Kenya has the strongest passport, allowing its citizens visa-free entry in 65 countries, closely followed by Tanzania at 62. Rwanda comes bottom at 48 visa-free countries with Uganda not far behind at 58. We left out Burundi and South Sudan, seeing as they are currently not the best places to be at the moment.

**eTA** Electronic Travel Authorisation

The rest of the countries of the world not included in this table do not have any arrangement with these East African countries. For this reason they either require a visa on arrival or require one to be processed before you even think of setting foot in those countries. However Kenya will soon phase out the Kenya passport as East Africa is working on one unifying East African passport for the six member states.

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