Burundian President, Evariste Ndayishimiye, will arrive in Tanzania on Friday for a three-day state visit.
“On October 22nd, he will arrive at Dodoma Airport and proceed to Chamwino State House, where he will be officially welcomed by his host, President Samia Suluhu Hassan,” the Tanzania Foreign Affairs ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Before President Ndayishimiye sets a foundation stone at Nala, near Dodoma, where Burundian firm Itracom is developing a $180 million fertiliser factory, the two leaders will hold bilateral discussions.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza will pay a visit to Tanzania’s semiautonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, according to Tanzanian Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Minister Liberata Mulamula.
He will rejoin President Suluhu on Sunday for a tour of the Dar es Salaam port, the standard gauge railway construction site and the Kwala Dry Port, where Burundi was allocated 10 hectares.
Landlocked Burundi heavily depends on the Dar port and the Central Corridor for imports and export of goods.
His visit comes three months after President Samia visited Bujumbura in July.
Mr Ndayishimiye made his first visit to Tanzania in September last year when he met with the late president John Magufuli in Kigoma, close to the Burundi border.