Ghana and Zambia no longer require visas for travel between the two countries following a historic visa waiver agreement .

The move, announced by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, during President John Dramani Mahama’s three-day state visit to Zambia, is aimed at strengthening diplomatic, economic, and people-to-people relations between the two African countries.

Narrating the events that preceded the agreement, Mr Ablakwa explained that he was in contact with the Chief Director, who was chairing a technical committee meeting.

He reminded her of the presidential directive, but there was initially some confusion because Ghana has three types of passports, diplomatic, service, and ordinary—while they only had two, Diplomatic and then the ordinary passport.

Ablakwa said he stressed that the directive came from the president, leaving the Zambian government with no choice but to agree to the deal.

"If you want our president to be here and you want his wishes to be granted, then you have to make sure that we reach this deal. And at 11: 30pm last night, they reached out to their president, and he said if it is my brother's wish, I am going to grant you. So we have the visa-waver agreement," Ablakwa announced.

Adding that, "this will bring the number to fifteen visa waiver agreements since President Mahama was sworn into office."