Tanzania President Magufuli allows hawkers to operate on streets

A busy street in Dar es Salaam. Hawkers now sell their goods on streets. PHOTO | FILE

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has ordered local authorities not to evict hawkers from urban centres, asking them instead to find commercially suitable areas for the traders.

In a speech, President Magufuli said hawkers must be relocated to commercially suitable areas within the town centres before they are evicted from places where they cause problems to the public.