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Very helpful list for my trip to southern africa.tnx.

How about guinnee?
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Cheaper Mali visa option is in Nouackshott, Mauri... 15 Euro at the Embassy close to Auberge Sahara. Visa done in 3 hours.
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Didn't go to Guinne but I know it's possible at the moment from Nouakchott, group of 20 overlanders got theres there a few months back, and last year a friend got it from The Gambia.


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Very helpful list for my trip to southern africa.tnx.

How about guinnee?
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Very helpful list for my trip to southern africa.tnx.

How about guinnee?
There's an embassy on Jomo Kenyatta Road in Freetown, Sierra Leone - $100 for a single entry.

If you're travelling South there's one in Bissau, near the stadium somewhere.
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Guinea - same day or next day - Dakar - 100usd
Bissau - 10 min - zuigonchor - 20 euro
Sierra Leone - banjul - same day or next day - 100usd
Liberia - next day- dakar - 110usd
Mali -same day- nouckchott - same day
Mauritania - next day - rabat or border - 140 euro
VTE (burkina/niger/cote divore/benin/ togo) - same day (wednesday) - barcalona - 100euro

Will update as we go but will try ghana in cote divore
Nigeria in bamako...
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Mauritania is 140 now? was 120 at border a few months ago

I would get Guinea in in Bissau for $50usd (30,000CFA) 1 month multiple entry. Issued same day. The guy is a bit corrupt saying 1 month is only single entry but a bit of pressure and he crumbles.

Good to know about the Sierra Leone and Liberia visas, I would probably get them where you got them eddyboi
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No VTE any more? Only e-visa for Benin

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VTE (burkina/niger/cote divore/benin/ togo)
Don't think the VTE exists any more.

I had email exchanges with Benin embassy in Barcelona in Nov '18 saying (a) they don't do the VTE any more (visa entente, they referred to it as - think it's the same thing), (b) they don't offer visas in Benin embassies any more (I took it they meant generally, not just in Barca) and c) the only visa now for Benin is an e-visa.
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Malian visa in Nouakchott: 1 month single entry for ~€15 (650 Ouguiyas).
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Don't think the VTE exists any more.

I had email exchanges with Benin embassy in Barcelona in Nov '18 saying (a) they don't do the VTE any more (visa entente, they referred to it as - think it's the same thing), (b) they don't offer visas in Benin embassies any more (I took it they meant generally, not just in Barca) and c) the only visa now for Benin is an e-visa.

A post on a facebook group from November 5 said it's still possible.
(This was not me)



"VISA ENTENTE IN OUAGADOUGOU
Just to let people know, it is still possible and very easy to get this visa in Ouga.
The cost is 25k CFA and you need two passport photos. You go to the main passport office in the morning and collect the same afternoon."


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Yes, the VTE restarted at the Service des Passeports on the Bobo road at the beginning of the month!

Fingers crossed it continues
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I once applied for the VTE in Ouaga but was refused because I had only a three day transit visa to Burkina, bought at the embassy in Bamako for 24000 CFA.
They demanded a full visa which was then 48000 CFA.
I hear they now offer visa on arrival at Ouaga airport for 94000 CFA.
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