Magufuli’s debt-forgiveness request includes $137 million that was taken for a housing project for the police, $15.7 million for an old Tanzania-Zambia railway and $15 million for a textile mill.

Najib Balala, cabinet secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife said that both migrations position the east African nation as the go-to destination for both safari and beach.

Total production is 170,000-172,000 barrels per day, South Sudanese under-secretary for the Ministry of Petroleum Awow Daniel Chuang said.

Kenya has announced international flights will resume on 1 August, but the high season is already lost.

The World Bank says in its Uganda economic update 2020 report, that the tax has not achieved its intended objective because “the tax is difficult to collect and easy to bypass by more technically-savvy users.”

The sector is the East African nation’s third-biggest foreign-exchange earner after remittances and agricultural exports.

“The pandemic has weakened near-term macroeconomic prospects for Tanzania,” the IMF said.

It said the east African country’s economy would also be hurt by a decline in export demand, supply chain disruptions for domestic manufacturers and weak domestic consumption.

The International Monetary Fund said last month that Uganda’s tourism earnings were expected to fall 54% in the 2019/20 (July-June) fiscal year, and decline 52% in the next year.