{"id":36739,"date":"2026-06-10T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36739"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:07:03","slug":"ugandas-national-airline-agrees-to-buy-10-new-boeing-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ugandas-national-airline-agrees-to-buy-10-new-boeing-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s national airline agrees to buy 10 new Boeing aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni this Wednesday witnessed the signing of \u2060an aircraft acquisition agreement between state-owned Uganda Airlines and United States planemaker Boeing for 10 new aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fleet expansion, which includes passenger and cargo aircraft, will strengthen trade, tourism, \u200cand \u2060investment, and position Uganda as a key regional aviation hub,&#8221; Uganda&#8217;s State House \u2060wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan broadcaster <em>UBC<\/em> said the \u2060agreement was worth 3.7 trillion Ugandan shillings ($984.64 million).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36740,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-36739","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Museveni witnessed the signing of \u2060an aircraft acquisition agreement between state-owned Uganda Airlines and US planemaker Boeing for 10 new aircraft","published_date":"2026-06-10 19:05:56","news_description":"Museveni witnessed the signing of \u2060an aircraft acquisition agreement between state-owned Uganda Airlines and US planemaker Boeing for 10 new aircraft","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36742,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36739\/revisions\/36742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}