Tanzania, March 24 -- Dar es Salaam. A multinational Egyptian company firm, Elsewedy Electric, has shifted its industrial park project from Kigamboni to Kikongo, Mlandizi in the Coast Region, it was revealed yesterday.

According to the information from the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC), the shift in the location of the project, whose first phase investment stands at $200 million (about Sh460 billion), was triggered by the investor's failure to secure ownership of the 500 acres of land from the owners.

"Investors and land owners failed to reach consensus," a source told The Citizen without dwelling into detail.

It was on those grounds that the government decided to come in and allocate land for them in Mlandizi to start implementatio...