Gasenyi is in the north of Busoni commune on the RN14 highway just south of the border with Rwanda.

[2] In 2008 the OPEC Fund for International Development announced a project to build a paved road running 37 kilometres (23 mi) from the city of Kirundo to Gasenyi and the border with Rwanda.

In February 2010 as many as 500 people daily would travel from the Gasenyi zone to Rwanda to work, often earning just enough to feed themselves and their family.

[4] In August 2020 the Minister of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS, the Minister of the Interior, Community Development and Public Security, the governor of Kirundo province and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) delegate in Burundi welcome a convoy of 493 Burundian refugees repatriated from the Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda to the Gasenyi-Nemba border.

[2] In April 2022 two convoys with 817 Burundian refugees crossed from Rwanda at Gasenyi-Nemba.