The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed $2.5 billion to the development of priority infrastructure projects in Tanzania, the East African Community (EAC) said Mumina Wa-Kyendo, the AfDB chief transport engineer in Tanzania, said projects that will benefit from the funds will include the Tanzanian stretch of the 400km Tanzania-Kenya road linking Bagamoyo, Pangani, Tanga, Horohoro/Lunga Lunga, Mombasa, and Malindi. The road, now under construction in both countries, forms part of the Coastal Transport Corridor of East Africa, which stretches from Lamu in Kenya to Mtwara in Tanzania.
Wa-Kyendo discussed the funding in Tanga at the end of a two-day inspection and supervision mission of the Bagamoyo-Pangani-Tanga road stretch by experts from the EAC secretariat, Tanzania's Ministries of Transport and Works, Kenya's Ministry of Roads and Infrastructure, the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority, and the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency, according to an EAC statement Thursday.
