Dar es Salaam, Jan. 30 -- DODOMA: TANZANIAN diaspora hoping for special status recognition will have to wait longer as proposed amendments to the law to establish the status remain under parliamentary review.

National Assembly Speaker Dr Tulia Ackson announced in Parliament yesterday that amendments to the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Bill, 2024, which would have created this status, have been withdrawn.

Dr Ackson clarified that the proposed amend ments were still under re view by Parliament. The withdrawn amend ments sought to introduce definitions like “Diaspora Tanzanite Card,” “Special Status,” and “Tanzania non-citizen diaspora,” and establish procedures for land ownership righ...