Locals’ jobless rate dips to 2.4 pct in 2018

DAR ES SALAAM – If you have never met Tang Jingyu, a 29-year-old Chinese born in Fujian province, you never will realize that he is from China when talking with him on the phone in Kiswahili.* The Chinese national, with the local Tanzanian name Juma Suluhu Sharobaro, speaks fluent Kiswahili and is now working in Tanzania as a marketing officer with StarTimes. At his residence along the Indian Ocean beach in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, he said he had learned Kiswahili for three

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