{"id":29213,"date":"2021-05-19T16:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=29213"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:11:15","slug":"us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package","title":{"rendered":"US investors promised special incentive package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>ZANZIBAR yesterday invited investors from the United States of America, pledging special incentive packages for special business projects in Pemba.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, Finance and Planning, Jamal Kassim Ali told the US Ambassador to Tanzania Donald Wright that Zanzibar is open for more investments, especially in the blue economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZanzibar is opening up for serious investors in the blue economy; there is huge potential for American investors in Zanzibar,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Jamal cited the processing of clove and other spices for the huge and lucrative American market under African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which he said, \u201cZanzibaris haven\u2019t exploited fully due to limited capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister Jamal invited American support in health and education sectors in particular, saying the Indian Ocean\u2019s semiautonomous archipelago is determined to greatly improve health and education services to the islanders.<\/p>\n<p>He said provision of relevant technical skills to Zanzibar youth is one of the government priorities to facilitate effective participation of the young generation to the blue economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some few technical schools but their capacity remains limited both in terms of infrastructure and training&#8230; we have to review the kind of skills provided to our youth and see if they really match with the blue economy that the country is pursuing,\u201d Minister Jamal said.<\/p>\n<p>He described Zanzibar\u2019s young population as a great economic asset for the country but only if it was appropriately harnessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot to do with this young population&#8230;it requires some strategies to use it profitably,\u201d he said. Earlier, Ambassador Wright expressed his office\u2019s keenness to work closely with Zanzibar and Tanzania in general, citing social services, investment, reciprocal trade, youth empowerment, democracy and human right as his priority areas.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy pledged to encourage American investors to invest in Zanzibar but asked the revolutionary government to address some of the issues which prospective US investors perceive as a hindrance to invest in Zanzibar.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Zanzibar for successful programmes against malaria, HIV\/AIDS and tuberculosis, promising to intensify cooperation with the government to further suppress the diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US has announced the resumption of Peace Corps Volunteering services, which the world\u2019s economic giant suspended last year due to the outbreak of COVID- 19.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Wright said the US government is working on the modalities to resume the services and promised to dispatch some volunteers to the health and educational sectors in Zanzibar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. ZANZIBAR yesterday invited investors from the United States of America, pledging special incentive packages for special business projects in Pemba. Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office, Finance and Planning, Jamal Kassim Ali told the US Ambassador to Tanzania Donald Wright that Zanzibar is open for more investments, especially in the blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-29213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US investors promised special incentive package - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZANZIBAR yesterday invited investors from the United States of America, pledging special incentive packages for special ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US investors promised special incentive package\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZANZIBAR yesterday invited investors from the United States of America, pledging special incentive packages for special ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-19T16:23:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img-60a52a7ac56b8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US investors promised special incentive package\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-19T16:23:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\"},\"wordCount\":416,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/05\/img-60a52a7ac56b8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/us-investors-promised-special-incentive-package\",\"name\":\"US investors promised special incentive package - 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