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Contractors stalling water projects risk blacklisting 30 Contractors stalling water projects risk blacklisting PRESIDENT John Magufuli yesterday said that the government will blacklist all contractors awarded water projects but failed to implement them within the agreed period. Speaking when launching a water project for Kagongwa-Isaka in Kahama municipality in Shinyanga Region, Dr Magufuli directed the Water ministry to prioritize local consultants in giving water project tenders. “This is taxpayers’ money. There is no way the government should be spending a lot of money to finance these...

Views: Visits 21 PRESIDENT John Magufuli has advanced three major requests to China President Xi Jinping, including asking the second largest economy in the world to cancel debts that Tanzania owes China. The requests by Dr Magufuli were made yesterday when he held talks with the Chinese Councillor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi when he paid an official two-day visit to Tanzania by flying directly to Chato District, Geita Region. He left the country yesterday evening to conclude his tour of African countries. He flew to Seychelles where he will conclude his visit today. The visit by t...

iAfrica 3 months ago 1 min read Share with your network! Two Chinese companies have won the contract to build a $1.32bn railway line in Tanzania, the East African nation’s foreign minister said, extending more than a decade of Chinese involvement in the country. China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and China Railway Construction will build the 341km link to connect the Lake Victoria port city of Mwanza in the north to the town of Isaka, on the way to the Indian Ocean p...

Two Chinese companies have won the contract to build a 3.0617 trillion shillings ($1.32 billion) modern rail line in Tanzania, the East African nation's foreign minister said, extending more than a decade of Chinese involvement in the country.

Text size Tanzania on Friday signed a $1.3-billion (1-billion-euro) deal with two Chinese companies for building a section of a railway aimed at linking its main port to neighbouring countries. President John Magufuli and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi oversaw the signing of the contract at an event broadcast live on state television. The deal involves the fifth section in a 2,561-kilometre (1,600-mile) railway whose construction began in 2017. The overall plan is to link the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam to Mwanza on Lake Victoria, with eventual spurs to Burundi, Democratic Repu...