{"id":73902,"date":"2014-12-13T16:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73902"},"modified":"2014-12-13T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T16:17:36","slug":"ghana-kenya-sign-7-bilateral-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/ghana-kenya-sign-7-bilateral-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana, Kenya sign 7 bilateral agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"
President John Dramani Mahama and his Kenyan host, President Uhuru Kenyatta, have supervised the signing of seven key agreements to strengthen the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the two nations, at the conclusion of a three-day state visit of the Ghanaian leader.<\/p>\n
Two of the agreements, which were signed at the State House in Nairobi, centred on the development of partnerships in Air Services and Trade, whilst five Memorandums of Understanding, (MOUs), were signed on Tourism, Agriculture, Energy, Oil and Gas, Information and Communications Technologies, (ICTs), and Education.<\/p>\n
Some elements of the agreements include efforts to reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries, cooperation in tourism training, and the exchange of technical information in agriculture.<\/p>\n
In bilateral discussions preceding the signing ceremony, the two leaders exchanged ideas on the need to establish Double Taxation Agreements between the two nations and how to protect investments in each other\u2019s country.<\/p>\n
They further discussed how Ghana and Kenya could serve as effective sub-regional aviation hubs in West and East Africa respectively.<\/p>\n
President Mahama congratulated his Kenyan host on the recent decision of the International Criminal Court, (ICC), to drop charges of crime against humanity and genocide levelled against him over the killing of more than 1000 people during the 2007 elections<\/p>\n