{"id":37524,"date":"2018-05-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandair-now-flies-ghana\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:19:19","slug":"rwandair-now-flies-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandair-now-flies-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir now flies Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of state in charge of transport Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye and Ghanaian minister of aviation Cecilia Abena Dapaah signed the agreement  Monday, 21st May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the event, Uwihanganye said that the new deal will allow the national carrier to freely pick passengers from Kotoka International Airport in Accra, connecting to different destinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Rwandair has been flying to Ghana&#8217;s capital Accra for the past five years, the air services agreement will act as a catalyst to future cooperation in trade and development between both countries.\u201d Said Min. Uwihanganye<\/p>\n<p>According to Ghanaian minister of aviation Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the deal presents an opportunity to foster Africa\u2019s economic development through air transport.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandair\u2019s CEO, Yvonne Manzi Makolo remarked that Accra was one of the places with a flourishing and expanding market on the continent, as its Airports connects to both the West &#038; South parts of the continent. <\/p>\n<p>Rwandair spread wings to Accra in 2013, flying there five times a week.<br \/>\nThe national carrier also recently launched flights to South Africa&#8217;s Cape Town and Nigeria&#8217;s Abuja, raising the number of its destinations to 26.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25366 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_uwihanganye_jean_de_dieu_na_minisitiri_ushinzwe_ibijyanye_n_indege_muri_ghana_cecilia_abena_dapaah_bashyira_umukono_ku_masezerano-49e72.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of state in charge of transport Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye and Ghanaian minister of aviation Cecilia Abena Dapaah signing the bilateral air service agreement \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25365 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_uwihanganye_ashyikiriza_cecilia_impano_yagenewe_n_u_rwanda-3f664.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25367 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_rwandair_yvonne_manzi_makolo_n_umuyobozi_w_ikigo_gishinzwe_indege_za_gisivile_silas_udahemuka_-7aff9.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandair\u2019s CEO, Yvonne Manzi Makolo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda and Ghana yesterday signed a bilateral air service agreement that allows Rwanda National flag carrier, Rwandair, to land at all of Ghana&#8217;s airports. This move will facilitate Rwandair to connect to different destinations such as the United States of America (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37524"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37524"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}