Tanzania, Feb. 19 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania and Russia are planning direct flights, a report in the Russian state-owned news agency shows.

Quoting Tanzania's Ambassador to Russia, Mr Fredrick Ibrahim Kibuta, the Sputnik writes on its website that an agreement to allow direct flights between the two countries would be signed in the near future.

"We are in the final stages of signing an agreement of mutual understanding and cooperation between our airlines in order to organize direct flights from Russia to Tanzania, even from St Petersburg there will be direct flights," reports the Sputnik in a story that was posted on its website on Tuesday, February 13, 2024.

"In fact, there is a need for direct flights, and we have requests from very...