DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 10 -- HOME Affairs Minister Kangi Lugola has maintained that the use of analogue travelling documents for Tanzanians wishing to travel outside the country will not be extended beyond the set deadline on January 31, this year.
This comes in the wake of revelations by the Immigration Department showing that only 200,000 out of about 900,000 holders of the old passports have updated their documents and acquired electronic passports.
"I call upon all Tanzanians to ensure that they first acquire national identification cards and thereafter update their old passports to electronic ones," Mr Lugola urged in a televised interview on state-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Services (TBC) on Wednesday evening.
The minister was clear ...