Mu kiyaga cya Victoria ku mwaro wo mu mujyi wa Mwanza, Leta ya Tanzania yashyize mu mazi ubwato bunini burimo kubakwa. Nibwo bwa mbere buruta ubundi bwose mu biyaga bigari. Buzajya butwara abagenzi n’imizigo.

Ubu bwato, Leta ya Tanzania ivuga ko ari bwo bunini kurusha ubundi bwose mu karere k’ibiyaga bigari. Bwitezweho ko buzajya bukora igendo hagati y’ibihugu bisangiye ikiyaga cya Victoria.

Ni ubwato bufite ubushobozi bwo gutwara abantu 1,200 no kwikorera toni 400 z’imizigo hamwe n’imodoka 20, nk’uko umuvugizi wa Leta ya Tanzania yabitangaje.

Ubu bwato nkuko BBC dukesha iyi nkuru ibitangaza, bwiswe MV Mwanza. Ntabwo buruzura neza kuko bugeze ku gipimo cya 82%, aho buzuzura butwaye miliyari 109 z’amashilingi ya Tanzania (miliyoni $46).

Avugira mu muhango wo kubushyira mu mazi, umutegetsi wa Tanzania muri minisiteri y’imirimo n’ubwikorezi Gabriel Migire yavuze ko kubaka ubu bwato ari umuhate wo guteza imbere ubucuruzi mu karere k’iki kiyaga.

Ikiyaga cya Victoria nicyo kinini mu buso mu bindi byose muri Africa, kikaba n’icya kabiri ku isi. Gihuriweho na Kenya (6%), Uganda (43%), na Tanzania (51%), itanga umusaruro w’amafi ugera kuri toni miliyoni 1,000 ku mwaka, kandi abantu bagera kuri miliyoni 40 batuye mu kibaya cyayo, nk’uko bivugwa na African Great Lakes Information Platform.

Imijyi yo mu karere nka Kisumu (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda), Mwanza na Bukoba (Tanzania) iri ku mwaro w’iki kiyaga.

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