{"id":197698,"date":"2025-05-09T00:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/kenya-seeks-to-establish-secondary-kq-hub-in-accra-to-boost-west-african-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T22:15:15","slug":"kenya-seeks-to-establish-secondary-kq-hub-in-accra-to-boost-west-african-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/kenya-seeks-to-establish-secondary-kq-hub-in-accra-to-boost-west-african-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Seeks to Establish Secondary KQ Hub in Accra to Boost West African Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya has formally requested the government of Ghana to allow its national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ), to establish a secondary hub in Accra as part of efforts to enhance air connectivity within West Africa and to global destinations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir made the request during an official visit to Accra, where he conveyed a special message of goodwill from President William Ruto to Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and the people of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080503.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has formally requested the government of Ghana to allow its national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ), to establish a secondary hub in Accra as part of efforts to enhance air connectivity within West Africa and to global destinations. Roads and Transport Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir made the request during an official visit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,4380,6557,17164,7946,4509,7448,4688,257,12797,8111,254,4375],"class_list":["post-197698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-boost","tag-connectivity","tag-establish","tag-ghana-news","tag-hub","tag-kenya","tag-news","tag-secondary","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}