Cargo at the Rwanda-Tanzania boarder customs.For the last few years, more than 70 per cent of Rwanda’s cargo has been coming through the Dar es Salaam port to Kigali, with only 30 per cent coming through Mombasa. Photo | Cyril NDEGEYA
The lack of finances is delaying the construction of the 532km Isaka-Kigali standard gauge railway line, that will now extend to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In July last year, Rwanda gazette a bilateral agreement it had with Tanzania, detailing the mechanism for the construction of the railway project, but works are yet to begin due to a shortfall in funds.
