Zanzibar is dropping serious cash on a massive infrastructure overhaul. Dr Khalid Salum Mohamed confirmed the administration is pushing hard to modernize air, sea, and road networks to establish the region as an East African trade powerhouse. The initiative aims to boost tourism while fixing local logistics issues.
The Abeid Amani Karume International Airport is seeing huge upgrades under the Zanzibar Airports Authority. Crews are currently building Terminal II for thirty-four million dollars alongside a six-million-dollar update for Terminal 1. Future plans involve a commercial center at Terminal III and an entirely new Airport City.
These upgrades stem from insane traffic spikes, seeing aircraft movements jump to seventy thousand...