Tanzania in last push for airport modernisation

Kilimanjaro airport. Tanzania will install radar systems in Julius Nyerere, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza and Mbeya airports to give it full control of its airspace. PHOTO | NMG

Tanzania has begun the last phase of its aviation sector modernisation plan with the commissioning of four radar systems worth $29.6 million, which will give it complete control of its airspace.

It has been using Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport’s radar system.