The Africa Visa Openness 2021 report recently released by the African Development Bank (AfDB) reveals that despite Covid-19, many African countries continue to open up more and more by offering their visas to citizens of other nations of the continent. Benin the first of the top10 countries.

The average score of the top 10 countries on the Africa Visa Openness Index rose to 0.904 from 0.902 in 2020. In addition to Patrice Talon's country, there are Seychelles and Gambia which make up the top 3 in the ranking . These three countries offered visa-free access to all African visitors in 2021, as they did in 2020. Namibia, Sierra Leone and Tanzania meanwhile joined the top 20 performers in 2021. 2021, nearly half of the top performers were in West Africa. The others are in East Africa, Southern Africa and North Africa.