🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭The new route marks a significant step in strengthening Uganda–Ghana relations through economic and commercial diplomacy, connecting businesses, investors, tourists and communities across East and West Africa. Operating four times weekly, the service opens new opportunities for trade, tourism, investment and cultural exchange while strengthening Entebbe’s role as a regional aviation hub. With Accra hosting the AfCFTA Secretariat, this connection offers a practical bridge between Africa’s regional markets, advancing continental integration and the ambition of building a US$500 billion Ugandan economy by 2040 under the Tenfold Growth Strategy. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 @UG_Airlines CEO Ato Girma Wake reminded stakeholders that connectivity must be commercially sustainable: “Let me be blunt: a route is only a promise kept if it is profitable.” Building passenger demand, supporting cargo and strengthening tourism partnerships will be essential to the long-term success of the Entebbe–Accra service. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭Uganda’s expanding air connectivity creates an important platform for stronger commercial links between East and West Africa. At today’s launch, the @MoWT_Uganda was represented by Hon. Fred Byamukama, Minister of State for Works and Transport, alongside government and aviation stakeholders supporting the development of Uganda’s aviation sector. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 At the @UG_Airlines Accra route launch, Ms. @MirembeSerukka, Chairperson of the Uganda Airlines Board, underscored the route’s significance in bringing East and West Africa closer and opening opportunities for trade, investment, tourism and cultural exchange. African integration needs practical connections between markets, businesses and people. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 DID YOU KNOW? ✈️ @UG_Airlines’ Entebbe–Accra service is scheduled to operate four times a week initially. At today’s launch, Uganda Airlines CEO Ato Girma Wake highlighted Accra’s strategic value in expanding the airline’s West African network, strengthening connections through Entebbe and supporting business, trade and tourism. Connectivity creates access; sustained partnerships help turn access into economic value. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 HAPPENING NOW | UGANDA AIRLINES LAUNCHES ACCRA ROUTE @UG_Airlines is launching its inaugural Entebbe–Accra service, creating fresh opportunities to connect businesses across the continent. At the launch, Amb. @richardkabonero, Head of Regional Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was joined by Dr. Edith Namutebi of Uganda’s High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. In his address, Amb. Kabonero highlights the need to turn this new air link into tangible trade, investment and tourism opportunities, in support of Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy, which targets a US$500 billion economy by 2040. The route is planned to operate four times weekly. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 DID YOU KNOW? With @UG_Airlines opening its Accra route today, a business meeting between Kampala and Ghana’s commercial capital becomes more accessible. Think Ugandan coffee, tea, dairy, fish and fresh produce reaching new customers. Better air links can help turn African products into African business opportunities. #UgandaGhana #UgandaGhana #MadeInUganda #AfCFTA

🇺🇬✈️🇬🇭 Africa is getting closer🌍✨ Today @UG_Airlines will be launching its new route to Accra, Ghana, opening new opportunities for trade, tourism, investment and business partnerships between East and West Africa. The new route will strengthen economic and commercial diplomacy and support the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) by connecting businesses to new markets and promoting intra-African trade. Uganda Airlines: Connecting Africa, unlocking markets and powering economic cooperation.🌍🤝✈️ – at Kampala, Uganda

Amb. Charles Ssentongo, representing the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has reaffirmed @GovUganda commitment to strengthening cross-border tourism cooperation with #Kenya , noting that the Ministry will continue to facilitate partnerships and advocate for the interests of tourism stakeholders. “As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Government, we will continue to facilitate, work with and advocate for the interests of tourism stakeholders.” He emphasized that tourism, one of the ATMS is a key priority under Uganda’s Ten-Fold Growth Strategy, which seeks to expand the country’s economy from US$50 billion to US$500 billion by 2040. As one of the key sectors driving this ambition and part of the country’s broader economic development strategy, tourism is central to unlocking investment, creating jobs and expanding opportunities for businesses and communities across borders. Amb. Ssentongo noted that Government recognizes the challenges affecting the tourism ecosystem, emphasizing that these issues are receiving attention under the Uganda–Kenya Joint Permanent Commission (JPC). He called for practical, time-bound solutions to outstanding trade barriers and industrial competitiveness challenges to unlock the full potential of cross-border tourism and ensure that both countries’ people benefit from the growing opportunities in the regional tourism sector.

🇿🇦🤝🇺🇬 South Africa and Uganda have reaffirmed their commitment to deeper bilateral cooperation following the Ministerial Meeting of the Third Session of the Joint Commission of Cooperation in Pretoria on 20 October 2026. Both Ministers emphasised regular political consultations, implementation of agreed commitments and removal of trade barriers to unlock investment, strengthen private-sector partnerships and advance shared priorities within the AU and EAC. #ECD #Uganda #SouthAfricauUganda