Kamembe International Airport, , is an airport in

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. RwandAir operates a

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with seven flights per week to and from

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. The airport receives charter flights from

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and the

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, though not on a regular schedule. During the Rwandan Civil War, Kamembe airport was suggested as a site for transiting French arms to the interim government after April 1994.

Location

Kamembe Airport is located approximately , by road, north of

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's central business district,

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, in the

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of Rwanda. The airport is located approximately , by air, southwest of

, the largest airport in the country. It sits at an altitude of above

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. The geographical coordinates of Kamembe Airport are: 02°27'23.0"S, 28°54'35.0"E (Latitude:-2.456389; Longitude:28.909722).

Overview

Kamembe is a medium airport with one paved runway 02/20 that measures long and wide.

History

The airport terminal building was heavily damaged by a 2008 earthquake, and early in 2010 the Rwanda government announced that Kamembe Airport would be repaired and modernized. By the end of 2012 a new terminal was completed, a new control tower was opened, and

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, a branch of the Italian publicly owned

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corporation, had installed new navigation systems. During a May 2013 visit, Infrastructure Minister Albert Nsengiyumva announced that the runway would be widened and lengthened from to by 2015. The airport re-opened in June 2015 and

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began scheduled flights from the airport.

Airlines and destinations

References

External links

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