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Vol 60 No 18

Published 13th September 2019


Tanzania

Bridge over troubled finance

Infrastructure development under President John Magufuli is haphazard and expensive

In July, the government contracted Chinese companies to build a 3.2-kilometre bridge across the Mwanza gulf on Lake Victoria. The US$260 million bridge, to be funded out of state coffers, will span the gulf from Kigongo to Busisi, and make Mwanza town more easily accessible from the west, including President John Magufuli's home Geita Region.

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