Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter
Tanzania’s President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan and former President Dr Jakaya Kikwete have arrived at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport ahead of the SADC Summit for Heads of State and Government on Saturday.
Attorney-General, Mrs Virginia Mabiza, welcomed President Samia Suluhu Hassan on her arrival at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport this afternoon.
Dr Hassan became Tanzania’s first female President when she assumed the role in 2021.
Tanzania is a founding Member State of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), having been one of the nine countries that formed the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) in Lusaka, Zambia, in April 1980.
SADCC transformed into SADC with the signing of the SADC Treaty in Windhoek, Namibia, in 1992.
Tanzania is the 31st largest country in the world, with a total land area of 885 800 square kilometres.
It borders Kenya and Uganda on the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique on the south.
The population of Tanzania stands at 65,5 million.
It has a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$378,76 billion, mainly driven by agriculture, construction, and manufacturing on the supply side and private investments on the demand side.
KiSwahili is the official, universally spoken language in Tanzania. English, also an official language, is the language of commerce.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter