Qatar Airways to take majority stake in new Rwandan international airport
A Qatar Airways plane. Qatar Airways has agreed to take a 60 per cent stake in a new $1.3 billion international airport in Rwanda, the state-run Rwanda Development Board announced on December 9, 2019. PHOTO | AFP
Qatar Airways has agreed to take a 60 per cent stake in a new $1.3 billion international airport in Rwanda, the state-run Rwanda Development Board said on Twitter on Monday.
The board said a first phase of construction would provide facilities for 7 million passengers a year in the Bugesera district, about 25 km south east of the capital Kigali. A second phase, expected to be completed by 2032, would double capacity to 14 million passengers a year.
