Tanzania has invited the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority to identify potential areas for establishing investment partnerships that will contribute to the economies of the two countries. Image via The Observer

Jamaican and Tanzania have initiated talks aimed at formalising investment partnerships in a number of areas.

Tanzania has invited the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) to identify potential areas for establishing investment partnerships that will contribute to the economies of the two countries. Both countries held preliminary talks during the recent Expo 2020 exhibition in Dubai.

Jamaica is planning to hold an international conferences, where Tanzania has been invited as one of the participating countries. The director of the Tanzania Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Getrude Ng'weshemi advised that her country is interested in collaborating with Jamaica in areas like tourism, medicine and medical supplies, industry, agriculture and fisheries.

While explaining that, “Tanzania is blessed with unique opportunities coupled with enabling environment, policies and adequate resources,” Ng'weshemi invited the JSEZA to discuss how Jamaica can cooperate with Tanzania in such investment areas. She indicated that Tanzania is also interested in collaborating with Jamaica on other investment projects.

The meeting at the Dubai exhibition between Tanzania and the JSEZA was also attended by exhibition coordinators from the Tanzania Trade Development Authority and other stakeholders participating in the exhibition including Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC), Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and Tanzania National Parks Authority.

The TIC representative Diana Mwamanga pointed to priority areas for investment such as pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, car assembling, and edible oil production, where the demand is currently high, cotton production as well as fisheries.

For her part, the NCAA representative Joyce Mgaya highlighted adequate opportunities for investment in areas of hotels and tourist camps, sports tourism such as golf courses and boxing.

The JSEZA director general of regulation, policy, monitoring and implementation Aisley Brown, among other things, promised to link Tanzania's tourism sector with its Jamaican counterpart with a view towards finding tourism opportunities available in Tanzania.

“To achieve this, I will meet with representatives of the Jamaican tourism sector as well as the commissioner general of the Jamaica Pavilion at this Expo 2020 Dubai who is the Jamaican ambassador to the UAE,” Brown posited. - Jamaica Observer

JUBA — At least two people, one of whom is an unidentified East African citizen, have been killed in two separate incidents in South Sudan’s Unity state.

This is according to the state minister of information, Kuon Makuei, who said one incident occurred in Leer County where a citizen was killed by a group of unidentified youth.

The other incident, he said, occurred in Mayom County of Unity state where the unidentified foreigner was killed by a group of bandits whom he said have remained at large since the incident took place.

“One of the youth was killed yesterday in Leer at 8 PM and concurrently, a trader from East Africa was killed in Mayom,” the state Minister of Information said, said, according to the Eye Radio.

“According to reliable sources, the foreign trader went out of his residence to look for a washroom that was far from the compound. Some bandits who were around shot and killed him and the culprits are still at large,” he said. - Sudans Post

NAIROBI, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's state-owned electricity generator said Thursday it has commenced drilling of the first of three geothermal wells in Djibouti setting in the contract it signed in February.

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said the Djiboutian venture is part of the company's ambitious diversification strategy, in which the company is seeking to acquire new revenue streams by offering commercial drilling services, geothermal consulting and other related services across Africa.

"This is a historic moment for us and we are confident that our team on site will deliver the project within the contracted time and on budget despite the prevailing circumstances brought about by COVID-19 and security situation in neighboring Ethiopia," KenGen CEO, Rebecca Miano said in a statement issued in Nairobi.

Miano said the drilling of the first well is expected to take about two months to complete as KenGen seeks to export the expertise and experience earned in Olkaria, Naivasha in Kenya where the company has successfully drilled about 320 geothermal wells.

She said with the drilling rig set up, KenGen is set to commence drilling of three geothermal wells for Djibouti Office of Geothermal Energy Development (ODDEG) over the next few months.

ODDEG Project Manager, Abdirasak Omar Moumin, said KenGen would deliver the project as planned, adding that the Djiboutian team was looking forward to acquiring new knowledge from the Kenyan firm.

"We are happy with KenGen and learning a lot from the team on the ground. They have a long history and expertise in geothermal which makes them the best partners in implementing our geothermal dream," said Moumin.

The statement comes after KenGen announced last week that it had completed drilling the deepest geothermal well in Ethiopia's Aluto-Langano project reaching a depth of 3,000 meters, surpassing a target of 2,750 meters.

Kenya is Africa's leading geothermal energy producer. - Xinhua