Tanzania, July 1 -- Serengeti. Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has directed the Ministry of Works to instruct contractors who abandoned road projects due to funding constraints to return to site immediately, paving the way for stalled works to resume without further delay.

He issued the directive in Serengeti on Tuesday, July 1, 2026, during a public rally on the first day of his five-day working visit to the Mara Region.

Dr Nchemba said the government's earlier decision to redirect funds from some road projects was deliberate, aimed at financing strategic national investments, including the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project and the Magufuli Bridge.

"It is not that we did not see the importance of these roads. The decision was necessary...