The United States this week began talks with Tanzania on potential support interventions to quash insurgency threats from neighbouring Mozambique just as Chinese troops arrived in Dar es Salaam for joint military drills for the same purpose.
"We think there are opportunities to strengthen our security partnership to help deal with the terrorist challenges on Tanzania's southern border," said US State Department's acting under-secretary for political affairs John Bass in Dar on Wednesday while winding up an African trip that included Chad.
