"It is going to be constructed in two phases, the first phase is going to be composed on one badge, the location where we are standing now is going to be where the badge is going to be assembled, and then after it is going to be taken where the gas is going to be extracted, which is approximately 30-35 km from here,” Steven Manzi, the construction manager for Gasmeth, the Rwandan firm behind the project, told Africa News on Tuesday.
Charles Bucagu, the Deputy Director General in charge of Agriculture Development at the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development (RAB), told Rwanda’s New Times that Western sanctions on Russia due to its special operation in Ukraine have cut into Russian fertilizer exports, strangling the central African country’s supply, requiring Rwanda to look for new sources.