Clean energy for African prosperity

Urumuri Project is a nonprofit advancing clean powered AI infrastructure to catalyze economic transformation in East Africa.

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Nuclear energy, artificial intelligence, and Rwanda's development capabilities offer a generational opportunity to develop a prosperous future.

Urumuri

(oo-roo-moo-ree)

Urumuri means light in Kinyarwanda — the language of Rwanda. We chose it deliberately. Light is energy. Light is knowledge. Light is what happens when both arrive together.

Reinforcing infrastructure drives lasting innovation. Our development thesis rests upon these three pillars.

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Nuclear and solar energy provide secure sources of clean energy, suitable to power industrial grids.

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AI research and infrastructure develop critical industries, such as healthcare, agriculture and education.

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In order for AI to deeply benefit African countries, the compute must be owned and managed locally.

To bring this prosperity to life, Rwanda must iteratively build compute powered by locally owned clean energy.

A network across academia, energy, and AI.

Harvard CMU Africa Oppenheimer Energy Nuclearn UC Berkeley Frontier Atomics

Develop with us in Kigali.

We are seeking academic collaborators and development partners at NEISA 2026.

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