{"id":242,"date":"2011-05-03T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-07-22T18:15:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T18:15:32","slug":"rwanda-kagame-investment-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Middle East investors to invest in aviation services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 03 May 2011<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investors from the Middle East are planning to start an aviation services project in the country and will make an announcement in this respect in May in Geneva. Speaking to the press after leading a delegation of investors to a meeting with President Paul Kagame today, the Rwanda Honorary Middle East envoy, Tarek Ragheb, said that discussions are underway. They are looking at financial and infrastructure aspects to pave the way for ultimate take-off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also looking into big projects like the Kigali Convention Center and the new airport. After Geneva in May, we may be able to make some specific announcement on the way forward,\u201d Tarek Ragheb said. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';\">The CEO of the Rwanda Development Board, John Gara added: <em>\u201cThese investors have been with us for the last two days and together we have looked at the different investment opportunities available in the country. They have taken specific interest in starting an aviation services center which, if started, would be the first of its kind in Africa. This would be a good thing for Rwanda. We will be signing an MoU in the coming few weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif';\">Mr. Gara said that during the discussions, President Kagame encouraged the investors to continue discussions with the concerned authorities to ensure that the projects are successfully implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 03 May 2011 Investors from the Middle East are planning to start an aviation services project in the country and will make an announcement in this respect in May in Geneva. Speaking to the press after leading a delegation of investors to a meeting with President Paul Kagame today, the Rwanda Honorary Middle East envoy, Tarek Ragheb, said that discussions are underway. They are looking at financial and infrastructure aspects to pave the way for ultimate take-off. \u201cWe are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","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\/242","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11003,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/11003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}