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Wang Yi’s visit added two new partners for the BRI, among other agreements.
January 12, 2021
Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, left, and Tanzania’s then-Foreign Minister Dr. Augustine Mahiga attend a press conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Monday Jan. 9, 2017.
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Over the weekend, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded his tour to five countries in Africa, upholding a 30-plus year tradition of China’s top diplomat starting the new year with the first international visit to the continent. The trip brought Wang to a disparate group of destinations: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and Seychelles.
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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been on a Five Nation tour of Africa, taking in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and the Seychelles, in a decades-old tradition where Beijing’s top diplomat always visits the continent at the start of the new year. This has been happening for the last 31 years now.
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Tanzania asks China to write off debt, gives nod to rail deal 08 January 2021 - 15:13 Nuzulack Dausen Tanzanian president John Magufuli addresses a news conference during an official visit to Nairobi, Kenya,on October 31 2016. File photo: REUTERS/THOMAS MUKOYA
Dar es Salaam Tanzania asked Beijing for debt relief and signed a new multibillion-dollar railway deal during Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s Africa tour.
President John Magufuli asked for the cancellation of old debts totalling $167.7m, according to the East African nation’s presidency. Earlier on Friday, Tanzania signed a $1.32bn rail-development contract with China Civil Engineering Construction and China Railway Construction.