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Tanzania’s SGR launch a new milestone in East Africa’s transport overhaul

Industry and Trade
  • The Dar-Dodoma SGR cuts travel time by more than half the time.
  • Two Presidents and one former President aboard the maiden trip.
  • Fast speed SGR expected to boost regional economic activities.

The launch of Tanzania’s SGR has ushered a new era across East Africa, where member countries are fast embracing electric train services to enhance transport and spur trade. This month, Tanzania became the latest of several other East African countries to invest in the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Zanzibar President Hussein Mwinyi as well as former President Jakaya Kikwete officiated the launch of the commercial operation of the country’s first SGR.

This initial August launch of the SGR services will serve between the commercial port city of Dar es Salaam and the capital city Dodoma. Being the first electric train, it marks a new age for the Tanzanian transport sector.

“The new SGR electric …

Zahur Ramji Magufuli

Remembering Magufuli: A President who believed in Work 

Tanzania

The late Magufuli is celebrated and mourned across the East African Community which has also joined hands with Tanzania to remember his legacy—which extended from his fight against corruption and the misuse of public resources to his diplomatic relations, forged across the landscape through several regional communities—where on numerous occasions he had declared that ‘we are unified as one’. 

Magufuli was a stern advocate of hard work for economic excellence. His voice on this matter was as strong as his willpower. Throughout his unfinished tenure, he had demonstrated how Tanzania can transform its natural wealth and utilize domestic tax collections to fuel development projects. …

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