{"id":221930,"date":"2026-01-26T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rwanda-formalise-kpa-kigali-office-to-strengthen-regional-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:10:56","slug":"kenya-rwanda-formalise-kpa-kigali-office-to-strengthen-regional-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rwanda-formalise-kpa-kigali-office-to-strengthen-regional-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Rwanda Formalise KPA Kigali Office to Strengthen Regional Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">For more than 12 years, the Port of Mombasa has served the Rwandan market, positioning itself as the region&#8217;s most modern and efficient gateway for international trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">To bring port services closer to Rwandan cargo owners and strengthen coordination along the Northern Corridor, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) established a liaison office in Kigali in July 2013&#8211;a move welcomed by the Government of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">As bilateral cooperation deepened, Kenya and Rwanda in 2024 agreed to formalise and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260098.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>For more than 12 years, the Port of Mombasa has served the Rwandan market, positioning itself as the region&#8217;s most modern and efficient gateway for international trade. To bring port services closer to Rwandan cargo owners and strengthen coordination along the Northern Corridor, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) established a liaison office in Kigali in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221931,"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":[258,256,7566,4688,430,5441,440,257,8089,4268,4702,254,6433,5979],"class_list":["post-221930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-formalise","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kigali","tag-kpa","tag-news","tag-office","tag-regional","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","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\/221930","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=221930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}