Doha to fund Rwanda’s new airport

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A Qatari government delegation led by Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was in Kigali this week for bilateral talks key among them the financing of the Bugesera International Airport.

Rwanda has been seeking funds for the new airport that will be its largest and whose construction began in August 2017 with a deadline set for 2020.

The government entered into a public-private partnership with Portuguese firm Mota Engil that granted the company the right to operate the airport for 25 years to recoup its total investment, estimated at about $820 million, with an option to extend the agreement for 15 years.

However, late last year, the government suspended construction works to "make improvements in design and quality and even expand it.”

Mota Engil injected $418 million in the initial phase of the project. The second phase had been estimated to cost $382 million.

But the redesign is expected to push up costs and has forced Rwanda to hunt for more financiers.

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