Qatar Airways has agreed to take a 60 percent stake in a new $1.3bn international airport in Rwanda, according to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on Monday.

The board said a first phase of construction would provide facilities for seven million passengers a year in the Bugesera district, about 25km southeast of the capital Kigali. A second phase, expected to be completed by 2032, would double capacity to 14 million passengers a year.

"The partnership features three agreements to build, own, and operate the state-of-the-art facility," the MoU signed between Qatar Airways and the Rwandan government said.

The country's infrastructure minister Claver Gatete told a news conference that a construction company was still being sought to build the airport.

The plans for the new airport are a modification of those drawn up in 2017 for a smaller facility with a maximum capacity of 4.5 million passengers a year in the same location.

Company and government officials said at the time that Rwanda had signed a deal with the African division of Portuguese construction firm Mota-Engil to build an international airport at a cost of $818m.

Gatete said the investment from Qatar Airways would enable it to build the larger airport.

"We are looking for a bigger sized airport. That's why we are looking for a bigger investor," he said.

Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani is currently visiting Kigali for the presentation of the International Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award.


Gatete said there was also a possibility that Qatar Airways would help state-run carrier RwandAir to expand, but gave no more details.


https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/ajimpact/qatar-airways-buy-rwandan-international-airport-191209212841510.html

panafrican:
Big mistake because Qatar is one of the main countries that sponsor terrorism. They are going to sneak radical Muslims into that country. The main goal in to hold Africa in a sandwich state with terrorists in Southern Africa added to terrorists in West Africa ( Mali, Burkina, Niger ) , terrorists in Somalia in Eastern Africa and terrorists in North Africa .

anonimi:


Do you think that Rwandans are as unserious as Nigerians are about national security?

panafrican:
Nigeria is the target of those who want Africa on the knees , eternally ! because they ( Western Europeans governments ) want us begging for their help.

sage:
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:the-vague-future-of-nigeria&catid=28:friday-column&Itemid=56


Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"