President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has returned home from Tanzania, following a three-day state visit aimed at strengthening bilateral relations and expanding economic cooperation between the two countries.

The visit, which underscored the historic ties between Namibia and Tanzania, resulted in the signing of several Memoranda of Understanding in the areas of defense, trade, agriculture, and the promotion of small and medium enterprises as well as a partnership agreement between Swakopmund and Zanzibar.

“We agreed that now we need to expand our cooperation. It's very good, bilaterally, politically, and economically. That's where we left behind. So we have now agreed that we need to strengthen our economic cooperation. There was a business forum; Namibian businesses participated. I met some of them. They are working hard to get partnerships so that you can have Namibian business people operating in Tanzania. And then Tanzanian business people operating in Namibia.”

The President also paid historic visits to Dodoma and Kongwa District, a significant site in the history of Southern African liberation movements, including Namibia's struggle for independence.

“Every Namibian by now knows the historical relationship between Tanzania and Namibia. And not only that, there is a significant role Tanzania has played in the liberation of Southern Africa. You know that all the liberation movements of Southern Africa that we hosted there, specifically, were able to visit the military training camp, our freedom fighter, in the area where we are going.”

Prior to her visit to Tanzania, Dr. Nandi-Ndaitwah was in Ghana, where she participated in the High-Level Consultative Conference on the Next Steps for the Landmark UN Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

“That was really a landmark because for the first time the international community has agreed and accepted that injustice was done. During the slave trade, Africans were all friends of the world, and that's now the time to heal the wounds. And that was really the purpose of the conference: to implement that resolution. So it went very well.”