{"id":39016,"date":"2019-03-22T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/border-market-worth-3-million-handed-to-rubavu\/"},"modified":"2019-03-23T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:41:28","slug":"border-market-worth-3-million-handed-to-rubavu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/border-market-worth-3-million-handed-to-rubavu\/","title":{"rendered":"Border market worth $3 million handed to Rubavu district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patience Umutesi, The CEO of East Africa Trademark which funded the construction of the market assured that the support to facilitate cross border trade will be sustained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction of this market built within two years took $ 3 million which also catered for renovation of a road to remove trade barriers,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The cross border market has 192 trading rooms and 5 freezers. <\/p>\n<p>Trade Mark East Africa plans to build more similar markets in Rusizi and Rutsiro districts. <\/p>\n<p>Rubavu district vice mayor for economic affairs, Janvier Murenzi revealed that the market is among infrastructures reinforcing strategies to meet the district\u2019s goal to become trade and tourism hub within six years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market will facilitate inter-trade with DRC citizens. It will promote exports because it has a particular section designed for improvement of Made in Rwanda products,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Director of Private Sector Federation (PSF) in Rubavu District, Jeannette Kayumba Nyota highlighted that the market will ease businesses for women who used to make long walks carrying loads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market comes at the right time because we receive many traders from DRC. There will be no more long walks to get goods. Both Congolese people and Rwandans will be exchanging goods here at the border,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINICOM), Michel Sebera requested residents to maintain the marker infrastructures.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28531 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/border_market.jpg\" alt=\"The market is expected to facilitate trade between Rwandan citizens and those of DRC\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28534 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cold_room.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28533 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/forex_space.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28532 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bank_space.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross border market worth $ 3 million that has been constructed for two years was yesterday handed to Rubavu district officials. The market located at &#8220;Petite Barri\u00e8re&#8221; will be used by traders from Rubavu and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-homenews","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\/39016","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}