By William Madouk<\/p>\n
South Sudanese traveling to Central African Republic (CAR) will now not be required to acquire visas, thanks to a visa waiver agreement signed on Saturday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A similar courtesy will be extended to citizens of Central African Republic as the two countries signed an agreement when President Faustin Touad\u00e9ra, visited Juba.<\/p>\n Touad\u00e9ra and Salva Kiir met on Saturday at the state house to establish bilateral ties and deepen diplomatic cooperation in areas of trade and investment.<\/p>\n Speaking to journalists, Cabinet Affairs Minister Dr. Martin Elia Martin said the two countries signed a joint cooperation agreement on trade and investment to promote development between the two countries.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, CAR Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sylvie Val\u00e9rie BAIPO TEMON said the two leaders have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding in areas of trade and security matrix along the borders.<\/p>\n According to office of the president, the visit of CAR president to South Sudan paves a way for further collaboration between Juba and Bangui.<\/p>\n \u201cThey further signed another pact to waive visa requirements for the citizens of the two countries to allow free movement of people in the region,\u201d PPU added in a statement.<\/p>\n Since his appointment in 2016, this is the first trip by President Faustin Archange Touad\u00e9ra to South Sudan.<\/p>\n South Sudanese citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 44 countries and territories as of 2 July 2019. However, this number may have changed since then.<\/p>\n South Sudan passport holders can travel without a visa to the following 18 countries: Barbados, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cook Islands, Dominica, Kenya, and Uganda just to mention but few.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk South Sudanese traveling to Central African Republic (CAR) will now not be required to acquire visas, thanks to a visa waiver agreement signed on Saturday. A similar courtesy will be extended to citizens of Central African Republic as the two countries signed an agreement when President Faustin[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Prezx.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17459,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17457\/revisions\/17459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}