Funding for Rwanda roads rebuild

Foreign funding will help pay for key road rebuilding work in Rwanda. Loans worth US$162.4 million are being provided by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with a $22 million development grant also coming from the EU. These financial sources will help pay for work to improve the 92km long link connecting Kayonza with Rusumo as well as the 116km road between Kagitumba and Kayonza. These road links are of importance as they help connect Rwanda to its nei
July 18, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Foreign funding will help pay for key road rebuilding work in Rwanda. Loans worth US$162.4 million are being provided by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), with a $22 million development grant also coming from the EU. These financial sources will help pay for work to improve the 92km long link connecting Kayonza with Rusumo as well as the 116km road between Kagitumba and Kayonza. These road links are of importance as they help connect Rwanda to its neighbours. Kagitumba is close to Rwanda’s northern border with Uganda, while Rusumo is close to the border with Tanzania, which lies to the east.

Through traffic between landlocked Rwanda and the much larger countries of Uganda and Tanzania are crucial for trade and to its economic development. Highway links from Kenya’s port of Mombasa and Tanzania’s port of Dar es Salaam are vital for East Africa, with work underway to improve these links and boost capacity. Meanwhile a series of road development projects are also underway to construct a new orbital network around Lake Victoria, which sits in between Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as being close to Rwanda and Burundi.
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