Tanzania Times
23 August 2026
The country is attempting to build an economic city around aviation, linking an international airport to logistics, manufacturing, tourism, real estate, agriculture, healthcare and education.
The Bugesera project is large by any regional standard.
It is a US$2 billion investment, backed in part by Qatar, with a 130,000-square-metre terminal designed for 8 million passengers annually, rising to over 14 million in subsequent decades, alongside a dedicated cargo terminal handling 150,000 tons a year. Completion is targeted for 2026.
That scale raises an obvious question Rwanda’s own population can’t answer on its own: where do 8 million passengers and 150,000 tonnes of annual cargo actually come from, for a country of roughly 14 million people...
