Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan (right) speaks with Qatar officials in Doha last week. The visit yielded deals in agriculture and livestock sectors, health care expertise-sharing. PHOTO | POOL
Back-to-back deals with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the past two weeks have added more weight to Tanzania’s latest crusade to leverage its historical Middle East connections for better trade and investment exchanges but reignited concerns about persistent reports of mistreatment of domestic workers.
Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba was in Dubai on September 28 for a deal on double taxation that sets to establish a more conducive platform for new foreign direct investments engagement between the two countries.