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Lily Mapemba, not her real name, is a career professional, trained and licensed to practice. She has worked for more than a decade in Kenyan institutions. It's while she was working in Kiambu, that she met her lover, a Paul (not her real name) a Tanzanian health professional who was then working in Kenya. They would get married and have two children. Paul then returned home to Dar es Salaam, urging Lily to quit her job and join her husband to have the family settle down.
She resigned from her county job, packed her belongings, and with his children joined their head of household in Dar. Getting a job was difficult because she would need a work permit, and even then, a number of companies refused it.
"I could not find a job despite the work permit," she said in an interview. After three years of unsuccessful efforts, she decided to go back and look for a job in Kenya. She would have one in the weeks following her return.
When the two States signed a series of measures
Release the commercial space between the two nations this week, Lily hopes that this trend will change, and will be more accommodating Kenyan professionals.
Among the trade issues that the Chief Trade Secretary Chris
Kiptoo and his Tanzanian counterpart Elisante Ole Gabriel have agreed last Wednesday
the immediate implementation of the report that was produced by the Kenya Office of
standards and the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority for a week in March.
In the new agreement, Kenyan textile products intended for
Tanzania will benefit from preferential treatment.
She will also see the recommendations of the audit reports.
on cement, edible oils and confectionery made in Kenya implemented. The two agreed to work on the electronic tracking of Tanzania's cargo at the Namanga border and will both go to the border.
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