By A Correspondent| Zimbabweans are to get African passports. This is if the just ended Kigali summit agreements are anything to go by.
This was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday as he touched down at the Harare International Airport.
He spoke of the African Union Protocol which facilitates for the printing of African Passports. The African Union Passport as ZimEye.com reveals allows a person to visit all 54 African Union nations visa-free.
In the video below the popular businessman, Tony Elumelu was presented his own passport.
While further details were not clear at the time of printing, Mnangagwa exclaimed saying “the signing today was very historic for the first time, the AfCTA has been launched today and out of 55 countries, 44 have signed.
“There was also the protocol on free movement of Africans in Africa, on that one let me say of the 44, Zimbabwe is one of them.
“Then there is a declaration, the Kigali Declaration, which AU member States are committing themselves to the AfCTA, if they have not signed now there is declaration of intent. Again we have signed that one. Beyond that, as Zimbabwe, we have also signed the AU Charter relating to democratic elections, the conducting of democratic elections, we have ourselves acceded to that charter.
“Lastly, we signed another protocol relating to the Pan African Parliament, most members of the AU had done so, but for some reason Zimbabwe had not done so. So, we have put those things behind us and we are now a progressive member of the AU.”