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The City of Kigali is the capital city of Rwanda, and has been since Rwandan independence in 1962. The city is comprised of three districts: Kicukiro, Gasabo, and Nyarugenge, and 35 sectors. The city’s vision is to make Kigali the “Center of Urban Excellence in Africa”, which the city has identified 3 pillars to support: social inclusion, sustainable development, and economic growth. The City of Kigali is Rwanda’s economic, cultural, and transport hub. The City is also connected internationally by the Kigali International Airport located in the heart of Kigali.

Kigali is the Capital and largest City of Rwanda, geographically located at the heart of Rwanda. The City is well known for its numerous hills spread across the four ridges with valleys in between and southern wetlands. The climate is tropical with annual average high temperatures of 26.9°C and low temperatures of 15.7°C, with annual precipitation of 950.9mm.

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Muhanga is located in the southern province of Rwanda, West of city of Kigali, it’s also one of the eight districts comprising the Southern Province. It is subdivided into twelve (12) sectors, sixty-three (63) cells and three hundred and thirty-one (331) villages (Imidugudu). The District covers an area of six hundred forty-seven point seven square kilometres (647.7 km2) and, it is neighbouring the Districts of Gakenke in the North, Kamonyi in the East, Ruhango in the South and Ngororero in the West.

Muhanga (DDP: 2013-2018) describes the District as a Secondary City located fifty Kilometres (50 km) from the City of Kigali (CoK). Muhanga District is among the areas that supply the City of Kigali with food especially vegetables, fruit and meat of small livestock, mainly pork. Muhanga District is also located at the juncture between Kigali and the Southern and Western Provinces, the Republic of Burundi and Eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo. Major towns of Southern Province connected to Muhanga Secondary City are Ruhango, Nyanza, Huye and Nyamagabe, while those of the Western Province are Ngororero and Karongi. It is also connected to the Mayaga, region rich in agricultural production. One part of Muhanga District is located in the “central plateau” of the country with topography of hills type. The other part of the District is on the high mountains of the Nil-Congo; it has peaks prancing beyond 2000 meters (Saruheshyi, Kanyarira, Mukingi and Samba).

This strategic location makes Muhanga Secondary City an economic pole that strives for development in trade and other businesses in the Southern part of the country by supplying goods and services but also a transit point for the supply of food in Kigali. Three (3) sectors were selected as urban administrative boundaries of Cyeza, Nyamabuye and Shyogwe are sector with high population density.

The District is located in an area well-watered, between 1100 mm and 1200 mm of altitude. This region enjoys a climate of four seasons of which two rainy seasons and two dry seasons: a short rainy season, which extends from October to December, a short dry season that runs from January to February, and a long rainy season from March to June and a long dry season from June to August or early September. The District is located mainly in the agro-bio-climatic region called “Granite Ridge”.

The district’s vegetation predominantly made up of crops and artificial forests. The crops consist of large banana with the combination of avocado, sweet potatoes, cassava, etc. The majority of the current afforested consists of Eucalyptus, Pinus and and few grevilleas especially on the lines conservation tillage.

(Source: District of Rubavu District Development Strategy, 2018)

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Rubavu District is one of 30 districts in Rwanda and one of the 7 districts comprising the Western province of Rwanda, 152 km from Kigali City. It has a total surface area of 388.3 km². It borders the Nyabihu District in the east, the Democratic Republic of Congo t0 the north and west, and the Rutsiro district to the south. That geographical location helps Rubavu establish itself as a business, cross-border trade, and tourism hub. The District of Rubavu is composed by 12 administrative sectors, 80 Cells and 525 Villages, with the main urban center being Gisenyi located on the border with the DRC. Rubavu is the only District in Rwanda where agriculture employs less than 50% of the workforce (District of Rubavu District Development Strategy, 2018).

The District has an equatorial climate with an average altitude. Average temperature ranges from 15 °C on the vertices, 20 ° C at borders of Lake Kivu, and night time temperatures that can drop to 6 ° C. Rubavu District belongs to the Kivu Nile and Sebeya catchments which serve as the main sources of water for the district and neighboring districts. Rainfall in Rubavu District varies between 1200 mm and 1500 mm per year. The Land of North-west District has a very rich but shallow, volcanic ash and lava decomposed soil, while land southeast have deep soils but poor, often acidic, sandy clay, leached by high erosion. Agricultural biodiversity includes maize, beans, pyrethrum, coffee and tea, among others, contributing to the region’s food security and livelihood. The forest resources act as important watershed functions that provide water for domestic and industrial use, allow for energy generation, and keep water bodies free of siltation (District of Rubavu District Development Strategy, 2018).

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