“We have signed agreement on water supply projects in Zanzibar and are working on others in 17 cities under concessional LOCs”.
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“The aim of the visit is to further deepen India’s engagement with Africa and provide opportunities to build close contacts at the highest political level and enhance mutual cooperation and understanding on major issues of common interests”, he said.
“I am told that an Indian radio-therapy machine is being installed at Bugando medical center to treat cancer patients”, he said.
After talks with South African President Jacob Zuma, the Prime Minister yesterday had paid glowing tribute to Gandhi as well as Nelson Mandela. For India, the need to strengthen ties with the African countries has acquired an added urgency in the context of India-China rivalry.
The partnership in the area of natural gas development and use is significant as Tanzania has been emerging as a gas giant with a series of finds since 2011. At a press conference, President Magufuli said that Tanzania will benefit from Rwanda’s experience in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and revealed that, in a bid to set establish a “robust and tamper-proof revenue collection system”, Tanzania will outsource the Rwandese ICT experts. He said, the whole range of our economic ties are healthy and on upswing. However, this is nothing compared to the Chinese funding of $94.3 billion between 2000 and 2013, against the United States’ $107.9 billion during the same period. We are old maritime neighbors. Together, our leaders and our people have fought colonialism and racial oppression.
“Our merchants have traded since early nineteenth century”.
There are around 80,000 people of India origin in Kenya, most of whose ancestors were brought as labour for the railways the then British rulers were building or came as traders. The Tanzanian President appeared to halt briefly but resumed the drumming again when he saw the Indian leader was in no mood to stop. After witnessing the signing ceremony of a long-term agreement for the purchase of pulses from Mozambique with President Nyusi, the PM said: “In Mozambique’s march towards economic prosperity, India will walk every step of the way”.
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“From Durban to Dar-es-Salaam!”
