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In early 2008 the government of Tanzania through the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development –MLHHSD, initiated a project to develop a new city at Kigamboni area in Temeke district of Dar es Salaam region. The reasons behind the decision were many but the most important factor was that the move would provide solutions to mitigate the urbanization problems of Dar es Salaam and its environs. Ideally the project is expected to generate significant social and economic benefits to the people of Kigamboni and, a relatively potential site for urban expansion of Dar es Salaam city. Implementation of the project is categorized into three phases from 2011 to 2020; 2021 – 2025 and 2026 to 2030 respectively.
While the Ministry is promising that very few displacements will take place in the course of project implementation, experiences from other projects of similar nature indicate that a lot of people were displaced from the project areas. It is on the basis of the foregoing that HAKIARDHI and TALA members engaged in a serious investigation to explore the current status of the project with a view to uncover the various land related challenges that are associated with this project to the resident communities of the project area and Kigamboni area in general.
