By Daniel Itai.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – (News of The South)- The government of Tanzania yesterday signed a contract with Beijing Construction Engineering Group worth US$14.570 million for the construction of the Pan African Postal Union headquarters building.
Minister for Works, Transport and Communication, Isack Kamwelwe said the construction is expected to take 30 months.
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority Director General, James Kilaba said the building will increase political and international relations between other African countries and Tanzania.
He also noted that completion of the building will increase employment for Tanzanians and ensure all meetings are conducted in the country.
Last month, the Chinese completed a US$40 million ultra-modern library at the state run University of Dar es Salaam which the country’s President John Magufuli praised China for.
“China is a true friend, they have given this assistance to Tanzania from their own tax payers free of charge,” said Magufuli.
Many political and economic analysts have been skeptical about China’s involvement in Africa even the Western countries have weighed in on the issue calling it neocolonialism.
Although China is seemingly Tanzania’s ‘friend’ the country thus far owes China more than US$2 billion, according to data from the China-Africa Research Initiative at Washington’s Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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