Central African Visa is not required for Senegaleses
Stay Duration: 90 days
Entry Requirements
- Senegal citizens travelling to the Central African Republic with the intention to stay for 90 days or less do not require a visa.
- Visitors are required to possess a valid passport for six months with at least one blank page for visa stamps.
- The passport of the Senegalese should be valid for six months beyond their departure date from the Central African Republic.
- Senegal citizens are required to possess passports with at least one blank page available for visa stamp(s).
- Amendment pages on the back of the passport are not suitable for the Central African Republic visa stamps.
- All visitors departing from the Central African Republic on international flights are required to pay a stamp tax.
- Senegal citizens are required to possess a copy of airline ticket showing entry and departure from the Central African Republic.
- Central African Republic uses the West Africa Standard Time zone (GMT+1) hence, the Central African Republic is 1 hour ahead of Senegal.
- The estimated flight time from Dakar, Senegal to the Central African Republic is 5 hours, 49 minutes.
- The baggage of visitors is cleared at the airport of Bangui, which is the only airport in the Central African Republic.
- Dogs and cats of visitors entering the Central African Republic must be accompanied by a veterinary certificate.
- The country is noted for its population of forest elephants and western lowland gorillas.
- The Central African Republic’s two official languages are French and Sango also spelt as Sangho, a creole developed as an inter-ethnic lingua franca based on the local Ngbandi language.
- Over 80% of CAR citizens profess the Christian faith, about 15% of the citizens profess Islamic faith and the rest profess other faiths with over 3% professing traditional faiths.
- C.A.R is one of the few African countries to have an African language as their official language with about 1% of its population speaking a few foreign languages.
- The Central African Republic primarily uses hydroelectricity as there are few other resources for energy and power.
- The climate is tropical, with abundant rainfall of about 178 cm (70 in) annually in the south, decreasing to about 86 cm (30 in) in the extreme northeast.
- The rainy season in the country is from December to March and a long, hot, dry season is from April to November. Floods are common.
- The Central African Republic has 5 prominent national parks which are Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Manovo Gounda (St. Floris) National Park, Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Andre Felix National Park and the Mbaéré Bodingué National Park.
- The famous Big 5 animals in Africa- African Elephant, African Rhino, African Buffalo, African Lion, and African Leopard among others are found in the aforementioned parks.
- Two-thirds of the country is within the Ubangi River basin, which flows into the Congo, while the remaining third is in the basin of the Chari, which flows into Lake Chad.
- Basketball is the country’s most popular sport. Its national team won the African Championship twice and was the first Sub-Saharan African team to qualify for the Basketball World Cup.