In 2016 seven markets in Bujumbura were closed so they could be rehabilitated with funding from the European Union.

[1] In February 2016 it was reported that no work had started at Ngagara Market, and garbage was piled up around it.

[4] They were to be occupied by July 2018, but the Ngagara Market opening was delayed due to problems in distributing the stands.

[1] In September 2019 it was reported that the former Poroto football field, which had housed Ngagara Q3 market during the rehabilitation, had been left in a deplorable state and was now being used as a rubbish dump.

[8] In September 2021, wholesalers of watermelons, tomatoes and amaranths were relocated from Cotebu Market to the Ngagara Market, as were the parking lots for vehicles transporting people and good from Bujumbura to Bubanza.