President Paul Kagame will today start a two-day visit in the Western Province where he will meet with thousands of citizens from Rutsiro and Karongi districts as well as opinion leaders from across the province.

The Head of State’s visit will begin in Rutsiro today where he will meet citizens and later in the day hold a special meeting with opinion leaders from the Western Province.

The second day of the visit will be in Karongi on Friday where a number of projects in the district underway are expected to create jobs and improve the people’s living standards in the district and the neighbouring regions, once they are complete.

The projects in Karongi District include KivuWatt project, which is expected to add 25 MW to the national grid of power generated by methane gas from Lake Kivu in July, the Rusizi-Nyamasheke-Karongi paved road which is under construction, a major cross border market built in the area, Bwishyura slaughter house, Karongi Taxi Park, and Rugabano Tea Factory.

With a combined population of more than 600,000, about 6 per cent of the total population in the country, Karongi and Rutsiro districts are some of the country’s regions whose main economic activities are agriculture and livestock farming.

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