Diaspora status debate reignited as minister clarifies legal position

Dar es Salaam. In an event organised by Tanzania’s ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Corporation in Dar es Salaam, the minister in charge of the docket, Ambassador Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, discussed a range of issues, including the three-day state visit by the President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, the transformation the ministry has gone through under his stewardship, among others, in the presence of the journalists.

The hot topic that has always lingered was the growing Tanzanian community abroad and their recognition that has been marred by delayed ‘special statuses, aborted bills, and a lot of restrictions the diaspora community allegedly faces when coming back to the country of their birth.