Tanzania, March 24 -- Dar es Salaam. East African countries have come up with new joint strategies on how to manage obsolete electronic-waste in their countries.

Among five new joint strategies is to ensure that every member state enact laws and policies and construction of infrastructures to enable processing of e-waste.

Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) director of industrial affairs Mr Emmanuel Manasseh on Thursday said that resource mobilisation and manpower are the agreed areas of focus to comb e-waste in the bloc and Tanzania in general.

"Capacity building to the public is another new strength that will help to control e-waste. Because currently a person owns more than one phone and when it gets damaged they don...