Infrastructure

Rusizi III Hydropower Plant Project is the first regional power project in East Africa to be established with the partnership between three states including Rwanda, DRC and Burundi and the Private Sector on the other hand, according to the Rwandan minister of Infrastructure, Claver Gatete. Senior representatives of governments from …

Rwanda has become a member of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB involved in infrastructure development projects. Rwanda was admitted on Saturday during the bank’s 4th annual board meeting held in Luxembourg. Other countries admitted the same day include Benin and Djibouti raising the number of members to 100. The Asian …

President Paul Kagame on Wednesday launched a model village in Karama Cell, Kigali Sector in Nyarugenge District which was built by Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Reserve Force. The village – Karama Integrated Model Village – will be home to 240 families that were relocated from high risk zones around the …

East Africa’s ambitious standard gauge railway line linking the port of Mombasa to the landlocked countries in the region has fallen behind schedule largely due to financing constraints, doubts over its economic viability, the cost of construction and indecisiveness on the part of some partner states to build their respective …

Kigali, Rwanda, 16 January 2019 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed financing agreements worth €115 million with the Government of Rwanda to support the Rwanda Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation Programme as additional financing. The funding, which comprises €114.27 million from the AfDB window and €0.8 million from …

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, 17 December 2018 – The Governing Council of the African water Facility (AWF) has commended the Facility for mobilizing over €1.4 billion for the implementation of projects. The Facility has also funded 117 national and regional projects in 52 countries, including transition states, since it began operations …

In order to improve the safety on the roads of the country and to limit the number of accidents caused by skidding, 20 thousands ( 20,000)reflectors will be soon installed on the main roads of Kigali City  thus adding to those already existing. While new roads are created day by …

Entebbe, Uganda, April 12, 2018 — With the support of the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), the Government of Uganda has successfully signed an agreement with a consortium of American and Italian firms to finance and construct a US $4-billion refinery in the country’s Hoima district. The project will be a …

The Joint EAC Heads of State Retreat on Infrastructure and Health Financing and Development that will take place in Kampala on 22nd February this year brings together two events namely the 4th EAC Heads of State Retreat on Infrastructure Financing and Development and the 1st EAC Summit on Investment in …

Ministers of Finance of Tanzania, Dr Philip Isidore  Mpango) and his Rwanda countpart, Amb.Claver Gatete, have met in Dar on Monday to discuss the financing mechanism of the joint 521KM Isaka-Kigali Standard Gauge Railway( SGR) project which is estimated to cost $2.5 billion.  The two countries have agreed to lay …