After Four Decades, Tanzania Government Finally Moves to Capital
- Moving core functions to Dodoma a priority: finance minister
- GDP growth for 2018 projected at 7.2% from 7.1% in 2017
People walk in downtown Dar es Salaam
Photographer: Daniel Hayduk/AFP via Getty Images
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Tanzania will move core government functions to its capital, Dodoma, more than four decades after the city got that status.
That will be one of the top priorities in the 2018-19 fiscal year, Finance Minister Philip Mpango told lawmakers in his annual budget speech on Thursday. The East African nation changed its capital to Dodoma from Dar es Salaam in 1974. Most government offices, except parliament, have however remained in the coastal city, which is the commercial hub.