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Stakeholders meet in Nairobi to advance the Ruzizi III Project Implementation

From 21–23 May 2025, a coordination meeting for the Ruzizi III Regional Hydropower Project was…

A High-Level meeting convened to advance the Ruzizi III Project

Rwanda’s Minister of Infrastructure, Dr. Jimmy Gasore, chaired a high-level meeting bringing together key development…

Ruzizi III Energy Limited (REL) is a special purpose vehicle that has been established and registered in Rwanda to develop the Ruzizi III Regional Hydroelectric project (Project). It is a key development project and will be one of the largest infrastructure projects in the region comprising Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern DR Congo. It is the first privately financed project in sub-Saharan Africa that will utilise a common regional water resource to generate power that will be shared equally between three countries.