DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 25 -- VICE-PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan today officiates the joint meeting of ministers responsible for environment, natural resources and tourism from Southern African Development Community (SADC) as the bloc goes extra miles by joining forces for economic prosperity.

Tanzania as SADC chair will be seeking to arrive at consensus in priority areas of the bloc as it has been doing in the preceding meetings here, with a view to build a region with high degree of harmonisation and rationalisation; enable the pooling of resources to achieve collective self-reliance to improve the living standards of the people of the region.

Chairman of the Committee of Senior SADC Officials Professor Adolf Mkenda said that all preparat...