{"id":19294,"date":"2025-09-04T22:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.rw\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:44:10","slug":"president-kagame-addresses-9th-aviation-africa-summit-exhibition-kigali-4-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=19294","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame opens 9th Aviation Africa Summit &#038; Exhibition | Kigali, 4 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSince its inception, the Aviation Africa Summit has been pivotal in showing how much growth Africa\u2019s aviation industry has experienced in a very short time. Unfortunately, our continent continues to face high operational costs, and infrastructure gaps. This makes the movement of people and cargo more expensive than it should be. Travel should not only be for the rich.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We all need to work more closely with our continental institutions, notably the African Union and ASECNA. It is important to strengthen these institutions, and ensure they are fit for purpose, to play a central role in achieving the vision of one sky and free movement on our continent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The bottom line, is that we can achieve much more, if we work together. We have all the resources and capabilities we need.\u201d President Kagame | 9th Aviation Africa Summit &amp; Exhibition.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSince its inception, the Aviation Africa Summit has been pivotal in showing how much growth Africa\u2019s aviation industry has experienced in a very short time. Unfortunately, our continent continues to face high operational costs, and infrastructure gaps. This makes the movement of people and cargo more expensive than it should be. Travel should not only be for the rich. We all need to work more closely with our continental institutions, notably the African Union and ASECNA. It is important to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19297,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions\/19297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}