Travel Guide Cankuzo

Located at the north end of the massif of Buyogoma (2 000 m altitude), at its meeting with the Kumoso pulling towards Tanzania, Cankuzo is a village located on the hills at 1 610 m altitude. As a province, it is a community of just a few thousand people who live in border trade and have significant population movements (border crossings in Mishiha, Gasenyi and Gisuru, all within 50 km). It resembles in this very much in Muyinga and Ruyigi, so close to that the pitiful state of the roads serving it has long damaged its development.The road connecting it to Ruyigi, asphalt in 2010, and the road to Muyinga (completed in 2014), should change the route. In a neighbouring region like this, where agricultural pioneer fronts have been strengthened since the 1980 s, and despite the current climate, food and humanitarian difficulties, Cankuzo could grow quickly and compete with Muyinga, with whom it shares certain sociological features (recent immigration and old shopping communities, Swahili, in particular). Already, its brand new market (World Bank program) and its "commercial" centre are more attractive to visitors.However, it cannot be denied that the local economy has suffered the full brunt of the war, especially as it is determined by the agricultural and food situation in the surrounding areas (displaced, refugees and starving).