Tanzania, the new El Dorado for Egyptian migrants
Faced with the tightening of European migration policies towards North Africans, the south of the continent is becoming an increasingly popular alternative. Many Egyptians are choosing to settle in Tanzania, where they say they find a favorable business climate, reports Al-Jazeera.
In 2017, Ahmed Ginah left Egypt and his village on the banks of the Nile to settle in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, where, four years later, he started his business. Interviewed by Al-Jazeera , he said: “When I first arrived in Tanzania at 28, no one understood why I had gone south.” He explains that his relatives in Egypt had many prejudices, relating to poverty and sanitary conditions in southern Africa.
He, on the other hand, had discovered an entrepreneurial environment conducive to opportunity. With just over $3,000 in savings, he launched his company, Dream Trading, tapping into a booming market: the import and export of aluminum household goods.
550 kilometers southeast of Dar es Salaam, in a village in the Mtwara region, Mohamed El-Shafie, a thirty-year-old Egyptian, has also benefited from this dynamism. In 2018, he built two cashew nut processing factories that employ around 400 Egyptian, Chinese, and Tanzanian workers. Seven years later, in 2023-2024, the value of these exports was around €614,000.
Like Ahmed Ginah and Mohamed El-Shafie, more and more North Africans are trying their luck
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