China-Africa: China donates ICT facilities to Home Ministry (Tanzania)
China has donated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities to the Ministry of Home Affairs worth 1.5million US dollars (about 1.8bn/-). The assistance, said to be the biggest support of its kind from the Chinese people, is intended to enhance the ministry’s plans to go high-tech.
The ministry’s Deputy Minister, Ambassador Khamis Kagasheki, said this in Dar es Salaam yesterday after a brief meeting between the ministry’s staff and China’s Deputy Minister for Public Security, Mr Cai Anji who is in the country for official visit. He said the donation, which was handed over to the ministry by Mr Anji, includes 50 new desktop computers, 30 laptops, scanners and digital cameras.
The minister further said that Mr Anji’s tour to the country was yet another move to demonstrate that the two countries were in good relations. He said that though China and Tanzania were both developing countries, China was better-off and projected to be at the pick of the world’s powerful countries in the world by 2025 and therefore the government felt prouder for its mutual relations.
Meanwhile, the visiting Chinese deputy minister commended the bilateral relations between Tanzania and China which started back in the 1960s for its ability to survive the test of time despite the changes the world has gone through. He said that numerous state tours made by the high ranked leaders of both countries were an indication of a continuing mutual understanding between the two countries.
(habarileo)
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