MOZAMBIQUE, TANZANIA SCRAP ENTRY VISAS

Mozambique and Tanzania on Sunday signed a Visa Waiver Agreement on diplomatic, service and ordinary passports extending to 90 days the period of stay in the territory of each country against the previous 30 days of the initial agreement, APA reports.

According to state-controlled Radio Mozambique, the agreement was signed in Dar es Salaam, the economic capital of Tanzania, after the meeting between Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and President Jakaya Kikwete.

Nyusi arrived in Tanzania on Sunday at the start of his three-day official state visit.

The Mozambican Interior Minister Basilio Monteiro, and the Tanzanian minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernanrd Membe, signed the deal on behalf of both countries.

According to Monteiro, the agreement aims to make more fluid cooperation by facilitating the free movement of people and goods in both countries because there is an understanding in this sense at the level of the Southern African Development Community, (SADC).

The agreement will help to increase trade between the two countries.

We know that people in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa are very close and there are Tanzanians on the other side of the Mozambican boarder with Tanzania, therefore, the populations of these provinces very close 

Said Monteiro, pointing out for example that the Unity Bridge which is under construction to link the two countries will enable Commercial flow, transit and the mutual benefits to countries.

Nyusi, in turn, said that the memorandum of understanding formalises a practice that already exists between Mozambique and all countries of the SADC region.