{"id":54152,"date":"2025-05-12T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-allocates-over-frw-701-billion-for-construction-of-bugesera\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:48:29","slug":"rwanda-allocates-over-frw-701-billion-for-construction-of-bugesera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-allocates-over-frw-701-billion-for-construction-of-bugesera\/","title":{"rendered":"Approximately Frw 700 billion allocated for construction of Bugesera airport, expansion of RwandAir"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BFP reveals a Rwf 7,032.5 billion budget for 2025\/26, marking a 21% surge from the prior year\u2019s revised Frw 5,816.4 billion. <\/p>\n

Aligned with the National Strategy for Transformation (NST2) and Vision 2050, the budget prioritizes sustainable development and includes funding for key projects like the Bugesera airport, RwandAir expansion, and recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic, May 2023 floods, and Marburg disease outbreak.<\/p>\n

The government projects Rwf 4,105.2 billion in domestic revenue (Frw 3,628.0 billion from taxes and Frw 477.2 billion from other sources), Frw 585.2 billion in external grants, and Frw 2,151.9 billion in loans to finance the budget. <\/p>\n

Expenditure is divided into Frw 4,395.1 billion for recurrent costs, such as salaries, and Frw 2,637.4 billion for capital investments.<\/p>\n

On May 8, 2025, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Yusuf Murangwa presented the BFP, noting a Rwf 1,216.1 billion budget increase driven by accelerated construction of the Bugesera airport, RwandAir expansion, and new pension policies.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2017, the Bugesera airport\u2019s first phase is slated for completion by 2027, with a capacity of 7 million passengers annually and employment for over 6,000 people. <\/p>\n

Qatar Airways, holding a 60% stake, supports the project, which is now 25\u201330% complete. <\/p>\n

Key infrastructure, including runways and drainage systems, is finished, with construction now focusing on vertical structures. <\/p>\n

The airport\u2019s full completion by 2032 will enable it to serve 14 million passengers yearly.<\/p>\n

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In a major step toward transforming Rwanda\u2019s economic landscape, the government has unveiled plans to invest Frw 699.4 billion in the construction of Bugesera International Airport and the expansion of RwandAir\u2019s operations between 2025 and 2028, according to the recently released Budget Framework Paper (BFP) for 2025\/26\u20132027\/28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000087030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":{"id":2000087030,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1h9a6362-a08aa-65fd1-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000087030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54152"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}