{"id":55647,"date":"2025-09-17T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-investors-urged-to-explore-expanded-opportunities-in-djibouti\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:48:06","slug":"rwandan-investors-urged-to-explore-expanded-opportunities-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-investors-urged-to-explore-expanded-opportunities-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan investors urged to explore expanded opportunities in Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali made the remarks during an interview with Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA), where he emphasized the need to build on the good relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Rwanda and Djibouti share many commonalities, including cultural ties, which should serve as a foundation for expanding private-sector cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already cooperate, but we should enhance and expand our collaboration just as our governments are doing. Why shouldn\u2019t we broaden our cooperation and develop it further?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments follow the 2016 partnership agreement signed between Rwanda and Djibouti\u2019s private sectors, which aimed to foster joint initiatives and drive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The strong bilateral relationship between the two nations has also been demonstrated through land exchanges. Rwanda has been granted 60 hectares of land at Djibouti\u2019s ports, while Rwanda, in return, allocated 10 hectares within its industrial park to Djibouti.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94547\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg\" alt=\"The Chief Executive Officer of Air Djibouti, Abdourahman Ali, called for expanded cooperation between private sector actors.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive Officer of Air Djibouti, Abdourahman Ali, has called for stronger partnerships and collaboration between Rwanda\u2019s private sector and their counterparts in Djibouti, in line with the close cooperation already existing between the two governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000094548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[201],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-rania-umutoni"],"bylines":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","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":139}],"contributors":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","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":139}],"featured_image":{"id":2000094548,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_air_djibouti_yasabye_kwagura_imikoranire_hagati_y_abikorera-83c43.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55647","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55647"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55647"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}