What the Niger visa rules mean for Mauritania travellers
Mauritania citizens can enter Niger without a visa and stay for up to 90 days. You only need a valid Mauritania passport at the border; immigration officers may still ask for a return or onward ticket, proof of accommodation and enough money for your stay. The 90-day limit usually counts calendar days from your arrival, so book your return flight inside that window.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Niger applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The UK government tells British nationals their passport should be valid for the proposed duration of their stay, and that no additional period of validity is needed.
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO's country list marks Niger as requiring proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged 9 months and over arriving from any country.
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for visitors to Niger. The UK Foreign Office says medical facilities are poor, even in Niamey, that serious medical treatment would require evacuati…
- Return or onward ticket: No official source we could read states an onward- or return-ticket requirement for Niger.
Niger entry rules compared
Niger lets 19 passports in without a visa and requires an embassy visa from 179. Mauritania citizens are treated the same way as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad and Côte d'Ivoire. Overall the Mauritania passport ranks #155 in the world with 26 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Africa? With a Mauritania passport you can also visit 11 countries in the region without a visa, including Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Algeria, Gambia, Kenya, Libya and Mali.
In the other direction, Niger citizens can visit Mauritania visa-free.