Kabezi
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Kabezi | |
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Town | |
  Kabezi | |
| Coordinates: 3°32′12″S 29°20′55″E / 3.5368°S 29.34848°E | |
| Country |  Burundi |
| Province | Bujumbura Rural Province |
| Commune | Commune of Kabezi |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (Central Africa Time) |
Kabezi is a town in Bujumbura Rural Province in Burundi.
Kabezi is in the Commune of Kabezi, just east of the RN 3 highway, which runs south from Bujumbura along the shore of Lake Tanganyika. It contains the Kabezi Hospital.[1]
Rainbow Mining Burundi's rare earth ore processing plant was built in 2018 near the town of Kabezi between Lake Tanganyika to the west and the RN3 road to the east.[2] The Kabezi plant did crushing and gravity separation.[3] In August 2021 Rainbow Rare Earths announced that almost all staff had been placed on suspension.[4]
