The president who was officiating at the opening of the 4th Aviation Africa Summit in Kigali today at the Radisson Blu and Convention Center noted that Rwanda will continue investing in the aviation sector as one of the ways through which transport costs challenges shall be addressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSixteen countries in Africa are landlocked, including Rwanda. That is almost one-third of Africa. But every country is \u201cair-linked\u201d. So geography should not be seen as an excuse for underdevelopment. This highlights the importance of regional integration, where there have been some notable achievements over the last year,\u201d considered the president. <\/p>\n
Removing barriers on the movement of goods and people, he said, means there will be steadily increasing demand for commercial air services in the years ahead. To this effect, President Kagame said that Rwanda intends to continue investing in aviation infrastructure, including \u201cgrowing our national carrier, RwandAir, and inaugurating a new state-of-the-art international airport in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n
He promised that the Aviation Africa Summit will continue to be the essential meeting point for industry and government as these transformational changes occur.<\/p>\n
The 4th Aviation Africa Summit brought together leaders across the civil and military aviation spectrum to discuss key issues that are driving change across the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Paul Kagame has said that despite being a landlocked country, there is no excuse for Rwanda to remain underdeveloped because being air-linked freezes the disadvantages that would be presented by lack of direct access to sea coasts. <\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/38916","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=38916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38916"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38916"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}