{"id":206245,"date":"2025-09-04T06:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyauganda-agree-to-ease-trade-exchange-barriers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:13:26","slug":"ethiopia-kenyauganda-agree-to-ease-trade-exchange-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ethiopia-kenyauganda-agree-to-ease-trade-exchange-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Kenya,Uganda Agree to Ease Trade Exchange Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Ugandan and Kenyan governments have signed a free trade deal aimed to eliminate or ease trade barriers and boost economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The deal, according to the Uganda-based, Monitor report, was signed last Friday. The two countries are agreed upon mechanisms to increasing bilateral trade, fostering investment and promoting economic growth in the region, it was stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The deal is supported by a directive signed by President Museveni of Uganda and his Kenyan counterpart,William Samoei Ruto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030438.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan and Kenyan governments have signed a free trade deal aimed to eliminate or ease trade barriers and boost economic cooperation. The deal, according to the Uganda-based, Monitor report, was signed last Friday. The two countries are agreed upon mechanisms to increasing bilateral trade, fostering investment and promoting economic growth in the region, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206246,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,8006,6894,5985,4716,9607,430,11917,257,254,5979],"class_list":["post-206245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agree","tag-barriers","tag-ease","tag-ethiopia","tag-exchange","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyauganda","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/206245","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}