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Tanzania refuses work permit for Kenyan executive

Sylvia Mulinge heads back to Safaricom after Tanzania declined to issue her with a work permit to take up an MD job in Vodacom. FILE PHOTO | COURTESY

By  The Citizen

Nation Media Group

Tanzania's largest telecom Vodacom has confirmed that a work permit application for Sylvia Mulinge who had been appointed as its managing director was declined by the Labour Commissioner.

She was to assume office on June 1.

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