ECOWAS ordinary passports: visa-free entry to Mali under AES declaration
The signed AES declaration makes the AES space, including Mali, visa-free for nationals of ECOWAS member states. ECOWAS subsequently reported that the AES countries and ECOWAS agreed continued free movement pending a new agreement.
- Applies only to nationals of the named ECOWAS State passport issuers holding ordinary passports for the normal visitor baseline.
- ECOWAS nationals may enter, circulate, reside, establish and exit subject to national law; AES States retain the power to refuse entry to inadmissible ECOWAS nationals.
- The policy does not decide employment, residence administration, commercial vehicle, diplomatic, official/service, refugee, laissez-passer, special-document, transit, crew, health, security or individual-admissibility treatment.
- The live MFA assistant's residence/location-dependent ordinary-passport results conflict with this declaration for some ECOWAS nationalities (including Ghana and Cabo Verde). The signed AES declaration and later ECOWAS continuation statement are treated as controlling; the assistant is recorded as a material reconciliation risk.