The U.S. government announced plans on Thursday to boost exports to Tanzania, where Vice President Kamala Harris was on a visit as part of a diplomatic drive by Washington to strengthen ties with a continent where China and Russia increasingly hold sway.
Harris began her African tour on Sunday in Ghana before flying late on Wednesday to Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, where she is due to hold talks with President Samia Suluhu Hassan later on Thursday.
Harris's office also highlighted U.S. support for a plan by LifeZone Metals to open a new processing plant in Tanzania. Her visit to Dar es Salaam marks a return to international engagement by Tanzania under President Hassan, after a period of isolationism under her predecessor John Magufuli, who cancelled all his ministers' foreign trips and discouraged travel.
He had also rejected COVID-19 vaccines and urged Tanzanians to put faith in prayer and remedies such as steam inhalation.
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