Jiji River Explained

Jiji River
Pushpin Map:Burundi
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Burundi
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Bururi Province
Mouth Location:Murembwe River

The Jiji River (French: Rivière Murembwe) is a river in Burundi.

Course

The Jiji River rises in the east of Bururi Province near Ruvuye.It flows east, then north, then flows west, parallel to the Siguvyaye River to its south, to its mouth on the Murembwe River.The river defines the northeast tip of the Bururi Forest Nature Reserve.

Dam

In 2013 the Burundian government start a project to build hydroelectric dams on the Jiji and Murembwe rivers.Work began in 2020 after seven years of study.Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, prime minister of Burundi, visited the sites in June 2021.He said work on the access roads was going well, work had started on the Jiji River and would start soon on the Murembwe River.

In December 2022 there were torrential rains in Muheka colline, below the Nyakigo colline, but officials of the ORASCOM company said the Jiji Murembwe Hydroelectric Power Station was not badly affected.The director general of REGIDESO Burundi asked ORASCOM to speed up the work.