{"id":37532,"date":"2018-05-23T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T10:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-togo-sign-airspace-agreement\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:50:42","slug":"rwanda-togo-sign-airspace-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-togo-sign-airspace-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Togo sign airspace agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement signed between both countries means that all air service operations will be conducted under the fifth freedom arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth freedom means that an airline has the right to carry passengers from one country to another and from that country to a third country. This means that RwandAir can now fly to Togo without any limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the signing ceremony yesterday, the State Minister for Transport in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye said that the agreement aims at opening the airspace for both countries.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThe most crucial component is that today Togo permitted us to use their airports and carry passengers from there to another country,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the same right was given to Togo\u2019s airlines and through the agreement; both country\u2019s careers can have particular partnership.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSigning such agreement for a country like Rwanda is part of continuing to develop air transportation and extending RwandAir\u2019s connections as it is in the Seven Year Government Programme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in Togo, Ninsao Gnofam said that the agreement allows RwandAir on cooperation with the West African Countries joint career, ASKY Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe agreement facilitates our both countries\u2019 careers to operate from the airports without limitations. It will help spur cooperation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>ASKY Airlines with headquarters in Togo operates from 23 directions of West African countries including Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Bamako, Bangui, Bissau, Brazzaville, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar\u2013Diass, Douala, Kinshasa\u2013N\u2019Djili, Lagos, Libreville, N\u2019Djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Pointe\u2013Noire and Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Rwanda has signed airspace agreement with 82 countries from around the World, among them 37 signed the fifth freedom.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25393 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_ninsao_na_uwihanganye_basinyana_amasezerano-f07cd.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport in Togo, Ninsao Gnofam and Uwihanganye sign the agreement\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda and Togo have signed airspace agreement which allowed national career, RwandAir to use Togo\u2019s airports without restrictions. <\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37532","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\/37532","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=37532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}