{"id":57169,"date":"2026-02-12T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-cuts-fy-2025-26-budget-by-rwf-80-4-billion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:17:24","slug":"rwanda-cuts-fy-2025-26-budget-by-rwf-80-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-cuts-fy-2025-26-budget-by-rwf-80-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda cuts FY 2025\/26 budget by Rwf 80.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The budget cut follows the government\u2019s securing of cheaper concessional and domestic financing for major projects, including Kigali\u2019s new international airport, reducing the funding requirement by Rwf 168.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Murangwa said external financing is expected to increase by Rwf 250.5 billion, mainly from grants and concessional loans, while projected tax and other domestic revenues have been revised upward by Rwf 41 billion, signalling confidence in Rwanda\u2019s growing economy.<\/p>\n<p>The recurrent budget has been revised downward by Rwf 198 billion to Rwf 4,114.9 billion. This adjustment, the minister said, reflects changes in public debt servicing, subsidies, and expenditures on goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, investment in capital and development projects has been increased by Rwf 253.2 billion, reaching Rwf 2,115.8 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The revised budget has been submitted to Parliament, which approved it for detailed review by the Finance Committee before final adoption. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-102068 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2026-02-12_at_16.03_59.jpg-cb016.jpg\" alt=\"Finance Minister Yusuf Murangwa presented the revised budget in Parliament on Thursday, February 12, 2026.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-102066 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2026-02-12_at_16.03_57.jpg-5834a.jpg\" alt=\"The House was briefed that the budget cut follows the government\u2019s securing of cheaper concessional and domestic financing for major projects. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-102067 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2026-02-12_at_16.03_58.jpg-8066e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda has revised its 2025\/26 budget down by Rwf 80.4 billion, bringing the total to Rwf 6,952.1 billion, following more affordable financing for major national projects and adjustments in projected revenues and public expenditures, Finance Minister Yusuf Murangwa told Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000102065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[69],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-62","tag-homehighlights","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000102065,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-12-feb-2026-05-26-pm-5014.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000102065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57169"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57169"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}