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| Tanzania’s Pres Samia Suluhu and US VP Kamala Harris |
WASHINGTON, April 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is in Washington for a working tour that will see her launch the Royal Tour documentary in New York on April 18.
The President left Tanzania on Wednesday and was seen off by the Vice President Phillip Mpango at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA).
Details about her schedule while in the US, other than attending the documentary launch, were not readily available.
The Royal Tour documentary was shot in Tanzania and will be used to market the country’s tourist attractions to a global audience, with the hope of reviving the tourism industry that was greatly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Following the initial launch in New York on April 18, the film will also be launched in Los Angeles on April 21, Dar es Salaam on April 28, and later in Zanzibar.
President Samia was involved in the recording of the documentary last year, as she travelled to various tourist attraction sites with the American-based film crew.
“What I am doing is to promote our country Tanzania internationally. We are going to film attraction sites. Potential investors will get to see how Tanzania is really like, areas of investments, and different attraction sites,” Samia said at the time while visiting the northern Tanzania wildlife parks with the filming crew from the United States.
The Tanzanian President and the film crew toured Mount Kilimanjaro, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and Serengeti National Park for the film.
Ngorongoro and Serengeti are Tanzania’s leading wildlife parks that attract thousands of regional and international tourists every year.
These two premier tourist parks are counted among the most visited sites in East Africa, mostly by wildlife safari tourists.
Meanwhile, President Samia is expected to meet the US Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in Washington DC.
Although details are not clear yet on when the two will meet, but their meeting is among things that are on her schedule while in the US.
When Samia assumed the office in 2021, therefore, becoming the first the first woman to hold that office, Kamala congratulated her saying the United States was ready to strengthen ties between the two countries. Kamala, the first woman and first person of color to serve as US vice president, made the comment in a posting on Twitter.
Also, she is expected to address global financial leaders at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings in Washington on April 23, 2022. — NNN-AGENCIES
