{"id":36799,"date":"2018-01-16T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-needs-2-4-billion-for-standard-gauge\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:04:22","slug":"rwanda-needs-2-4-billion-for-standard-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-needs-2-4-billion-for-standard-gauge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda needs $2.4 billion for standard gauge railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During President Paul Kagame\u2019s last week visit to Tanzania, he agreed with President John Magufuli to construct a 400-kilometer standard gauge railway (SGR) line from Isaka to Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>After talks between both Heads of States, Magufuli told media that the construction of the railway line will be jointly financed by the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>While he was speaking to national broadcaster, RBA yesterday, the Manager of Planning and Research Division at Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA), Fabrice Barisanga said that the 2014 action plan revealed that the whole railway project from Dar es Salaam to Kigali will be 1464 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>He said that currently, they are looking at 494 kilometer Isaka-Kigali phase where Rwanda has 150kiliometers to construct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAction plan shows us that the whole project will take us $2.5 billion. It is a big project that requires enough financial means,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in line with President Kagame\u2019s visit in Tanzania where he and Tanzanian president agreed to fast-track the project. For us Technicians, we are ready to start implementation based on Head of States\u2019 agreements,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The project will pass through Eastern Province\u2019s Districts of Kirehe-Ngoma-Bugera to Kicukiro District in Kigali, Masaka Sector. <\/p>\n<p>Study shows that properties for  2450 people will be affected by the project.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the State Minister of Transportation in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye said that both countries should agree on ways to find the  financing sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs they have requested us, in two weeks, we will have agreed on the way to go,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Construction works for Tanzanian part have started and works are being implemented in two phases. The first phase is Dar es Salaam-Morogoro with 330 kilometers and Morogoro- Makutupora with 426 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>The railway is expected to ease transportation between Rwanda and Tanzania. Currently, 70% of Rwanda\u2019s importations pass through Tanzania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23756 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_magufuli.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame and Tanzania&#039;s Magufuli agreed to construct a 400-kilometer standard gauge railway (SGR) line from Isaka to Kigali.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda needs a total of $2.5 billion (over Rwf2140 billion) to construct standard gauge railway, a project that will link the country with Tanzania, an official at Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36799"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36799"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}