AIRPORT SQUATTERS EVICTED AS KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL IS EXPANDED
May 1st, 2013THE TANZANIAN Government has awarded a USD30 million contract to the Netherlands’ BAM International to upgrade Kilimanjaro International Airport. Bakari Murusuri, managing director of BAM’s local affiliate Kilimanjaro Airports Development Company said the terminal building, aprons, taxiways and the runway would be expanded. He added: “During construction, about 2,000 illegal squatters who have settled on the airport’s land will be evicted.”
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