The first phase of the airport, located 25km outside Kigali, is designed for seven ...

The government plans to allocate around $600 million (approx. Rwf850 billion) to expedite the construction of the new international airport in Bugesera in the forthcoming 2025/26 fiscal year, ...

Long before being classified as one of the poorest villages in Rwanda, Mayange Sector, Bugesera District was historically known for being the home to Rwabanyanga cave and King Ruganzu's seat.

At the time, this region, which borders the current Bugesera District, was not inhabited and looked hostile to human settlement. Like Bugesera, it had only dense forests, gigantic savannah ...

Rwandan government to inject new funds into delayed Bugesera Airport project • Allocation included in 2025/2026 budget to help meet new 2027 launch target • Airport aims to handle up to 14 million ...

Some 40 kilometers south of the Rwandan capital of Kigali in the Bugesera District, construction vehicles and high-visibility vests swarm across an arid expanse of land. Here, two strips of tarmac ...

The new facility will be of great importance to national airline RwandAir, which by the time Bugesera is open very likely will already operate intercontinental flights, with two B787 Dreamliners ...

On a summer afternoon in 1994, David Guttenfelder took a taxi from the Rwandan capital Kigali to the nearby region of Bugesera. He walked inside the Ntarama Church and began taking photographs of ...

Farmers in Bugesera District have, over the years, been adversely affected by climate change, especially drought, which withers their crops before or soon after flowering. Yet the farmers as well as ...