The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, will pay a State Visit to Uganda from November 9 to 11, 2017.<\/p>\n
This will be his second visit; the first being the swearing-in ceremony of H.E. President Yoweri Museveni in May 2016.<\/p>\n
H.E. President Yoweri Museveni paid a State Visit to Tanzania from February 25-26, 2017 and on August 05, 2017, together with H.E. President Magufuli, laid the first foundation stone in Tanga for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.<\/p>\n
President Magufuli\u2019s visit comes at a time when the two countries have stepped up bilateral cooperation in a number of sectors.<\/p>\n
The 1st<\/sup> Tanzania-Uganda Permanent Joint Commission was held on April 3-5, 2017 in Arusha during which both countries agreed on a number of Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) and other cooperation frameworks.\u00a0 On July 29, 2017 a Ministerial Session was held in Bukoba on cross-border issues.<\/p>\n During the visit, the two Heads of State will on November 9th<\/sup> 2017, Commission of a One Stop Border Post at Mutukula, lay a cross-border mark-stone at Luzinga Village for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline and address a rally in Kyotera.<\/p>\n The key bilateral issues for consideration during the visit will include cooperation in the Transport sector, Power Projects and Uganda-Tanzania cross border issues. A number of MOUs on Cooperation in various fields are also expected to be signed.<\/p>\n The two leaders are also expected to hold a Press Conference in Masaka on Friday November 10th<\/sup> which shall be concluded by the issuing of a Joint Communique.<\/p>\n The second foundation stone for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline will be laid on November 11th<\/sup> 2017 in Hoima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, will pay a State Visit to Uganda from November 9 to 11, 2017. This will be his second visit; the first being the swearing-in ceremony of H.E. President Yoweri Museveni in May 2016. H.E. President Yoweri Museveni paid a State Visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[31,145,109,126],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-featured","tag-magufuli","tag-news","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}