{"id":37526,"date":"2018-05-22T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-obtain-aviation-safety-certification\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:21:07","slug":"rwanda-to-obtain-aviation-safety-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-obtain-aviation-safety-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to obtain aviation safety certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known as \u2018ICAO\u2019s President Safety Certificate\u2019, the certificate will be presented in a the launch the four-day Aviation Safety Management Symposium that is taking place in Kigali starting from this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a press conference yesterday, the State Minister for Transport in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye said that the certificate is presented to the country that exhibited progress in aviation safety compliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the evaluation that had been conducted by ICAO in 2012, Rwanda made 44 per cent in aviation safety compliance. But, in the 2017 evaluation Rwanda made 73.7 per cent which marks the progress of about 30 per cent. That is why the ICAO president will present the certificate to President Paul Kagame as a way to recognize Rwanda\u2019s progress in aviation safety compliance,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is set to receive the certificate as the country continues to introduce new reforms and regulations regulating civil aviation sector.<\/p>\n<p>The reforms are expected to facilitate Rwanda\u2019s career, RwandAir being eligible to easily access Europe and America markets because the reforms include the requirements by civil aviation companies from these continents. <\/p>\n<p>According to ICAO, the effective implementation of ICAO\u2019s global Standards and Recommended Practices is considered a fundamental prerequisite today for establishing air transport\u2019s rapid global connectivity, and in turn the many socio-economic benefits it helps to realize.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25370 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_wa_leta_ushinzwe_gutwara_abantu_n_ibintu_uwihanganye_jean_de_dieu_avuga_ko_u_rwanda_rwateye_intambwe_ishimishije_mu_kunoza_imicungire_y_umutekano_mu_ndege-7b2e8.jpg\" alt=\"State Minister for Transport in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda is set to obtain the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a certificate that recognizes the state\u2019s significant progress in resolving safety oversight deficiencies and improving the effective implementation of ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/37526","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37526"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}