Tanzania

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Tanzania
Population:	40.4mn.
GNI, $ :	16.3bn.
Debt:	4.4bn.
Overview:	The country will host a new South Korean agriculture project and wait to see if China Sonangol will buy a major share of Air Tanzania to finance its relaunch and rebranding, although other companies have expressed an interested.

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Found 6 articles.

Vol 4 No 1
November 2010

TAZARA troubles

China’s flagship African railroad project continues to lose money, and Chinese management may be brought in to avoid throwing more good money after bad. Built in the 1970s, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway was China’s most expensive foreign aid project and a m...

Vol 3 No 9
July 2010

Choose your poison

The shadowy joint venture between Angola's state-owned oil company and the nebulous China International Fund has reached a new stumbling block in its three-year-old pursuit of a major stake in Tanzania's national airline. Infrastructure Minister Shuku...

Vol 3 No 4
February 2010

RITES not right

The renovation of Tanzania’s dilapidated railways stalls due to a dispute between the government and its Indian partners

Vol 3 No 4
February 2010

Untoward Indian tillers

A US$40 million concessionary loan from the Indian government is mired in delays, a legal review and accusations of corruption. Moreover, the mix of army-owned enterprises, tied aid and squabbling agents around the deal is raising eyebrows in diplomati...

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

The next great land sale

Seoul is trying to buy into Tanzania's farm sector shortly after Daewoo precipitated a political confrontation over the same issue in Madagascar

Vol 1 No 10
August 2008

Flying higher

Chinese investors are to rescue Tanzania's state-owned airline and rennovate Julius Nyerere International Airport

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