It's a fact that most East African would prefer to enter and work in Tanzania then the rest of East African Countries. The environment and Opportunity available attract many east African to come and work in Tanzania. Also the peaceful atmosphere makes Dar es Salaam hot cake for job seekers and settlers.
Very few Tanzanians have ambitions to work in Kenya and Uganda .The tribalism in Kenya makes difficult for non Kenyans to get employed even if ones is qualified. So apart from agreements by member states there is a problem of culture and tribalism which would make Tanzanian not to benefits
Single visa for tourism entry is ok as some tourists in Europe and other areas would like to visit 2 or more countries when they come to East African. However this arrangement needs comprehensive talk to reach into a suitable agreement. They are issue of security. We all know so many people with UK passports have entered into Kenya and were implicated on terrorism so this issue as Tanzanian we must address
Issue concerning how the visa fees would be monitored and distributed accordingly to member states and on what formaula?
Most international airlines prefer Nairobi as their hub and if single tourist visa is establish the will shall see all other airline stop in Nairobi and this will deny other countries revenues and air transport
UK and Ireland have not agreed on schengen visa because they know they will receive bogus tourists who would not leave UK.
The same problem we are facing thousands of immigrants from Eretria, Ethiopia and Somali are apprehended every month in Tanzania. These illegal Immigrants are allowed without problem to pass through Kenya to Tanzania!!!!! Now imagine if we have single visa and at the same time ID are used to pass through borders….how many wakimbizi tutapokea?
Another area where Kenyans are pushing is entry of south Sudan, this is new country and very poor but Kenyan are pushing as they only look on one side they have industries and south Sudan have nothing therefore its readymade market of their goods and the share border with south Sudan so it's another advantage for them . It's not easy for Tanzanian to enter into Sudan and trade. Kenyan is pushing this issue even though they know that there is security concerned from juba. Integrating these people who have been fighting for the last 30 years and still fighting would jeopardize our peace.
First you must keep your house in order, make sure that security is improved and make sure tribalism has no room in EAC .
South sudan, is a very new country and has emerged from a crisis. According to its location on the map it will be useless for tz to grumble against kenya being close to S. Sudan. SS having no infrastructure, it has twice the cost of transporting goods or even setting up anything within its borders. that is where the lappset projects comes in to the picture to enable connectivity.
As people from all over the world move into South sudan to build it the better, and.... i do'nt know if you really understand the current sudanese scenario very well...already there are companies existing there KCB, EQUITY, total and other international companies.
i look at Rwanda's distance from Tanzania, and beg to ask how many Tanzanian companies exist within rwanda???...can we get a count... if there are few tanzanian investments in rwanda..who is to blame? is it the EA citizens or is the system Tz applying ineffective..
recently after planes were re-routed to rwanda and ugandan airports from JKIA after an inferno, a few tanzanians here at JF complained about those measures..supposing these are business minded pple;..you do not need to ask what a selfish thougth by a self centred person is capable of doing.... that in itself speaks volumes how deep the region can sink if the economic system is affected.
ironically, If rwanda was able to come up and recover from it's state after the genocide, then many postive comments should be made on the same about S sudan,
FYI, As instabilty rages ijn S SUdan remember there are civilians that need goods and services. temporarily, for any one accessing SSudan it will b convinenit, for them to go for a cheaper option of transporting goods and services. if it is cheaper via uganda, then it is automatic for anyone transporting goods to go tthere...if it is cheaper to do it in nairobi...automatically.they will opt for NBI...
There is no need of condemning anyone on the fact that they are at an advantageous postion. I know some unscrupulous fellows thrust themselves to such position by all means...but these are every where in every place...but remember the more SSudan Somalia and all other conflict prone areas in EA (congo CAR) recover, the more we get the benefits of a safer EA economically, even politically stable.
Most of these conflicts have been with us, so do not pin any unnecessary weaknesses like terror etc... to any state as these grew as a result of other stabller nations watching and lauching probably thinking they were safe not forgettting in 1998 dar-es-salaam was not spared by osama bin laden..