Dominica and Rwanda have signed a visa-free journey settlement aimed toward enhancing mobility between the 2 nations. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was formalized on Tuesday throughout the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
With this settlement, Dominica joins a number of Commonwealth nations which have established comparable visa-free preparations with Rwanda, together with Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, and Guyana.
This settlement is predicted to facilitate simpler journey between the African nation and the Commonwealth of Dominica, whereas additionally strengthening their bilateral relations. It would open up alternatives in tourism, tradition, and enterprise.
The MOU was signed by Dominica’s Overseas Affairs Minister, Dr. Vince Henderson, and Rwanda’s Minister of Overseas Affairs and Worldwide Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe.
Rwanda, a landlocked nation in east-central Africa, has an estimated inhabitants of 13 million as of 2024.
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Rwanda has just lately intensified its efforts to strengthen bilateral ties with the Caribbean, recognizing their shared historical past and improvement targets. President Paul Kagame has actively championed the enhancement of Afro-Caribbean relations throughout a number of official visits to nations reminiscent of Barbados, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
On the inaugural Africa-CARICOM Summit in 2021, which introduced collectively leaders from the Caribbean Neighborhood and Africa to discover commerce and funding alternatives, Kagame famous that the collaboration was each well timed and lengthy overdue.
Regardless of the geographical distance, leaders from each areas emphasize the significance of accelerating people-to-people exchanges, notably for youth and entrepreneurs, to foster commerce and funding cooperation.
