Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has announced that he has moved the government base to the country’s new capital city, Dodoma.

On Saturday the President said the eventual movement to Dodoma from the largest city of Dar es Salaam has taken place.

Tanzania’s founding president Julius Nyerere hatched the idea of the movement of the presidency to Dodoma in 1973.

It has taken decades for this dream of moving the capital from Dar es Salaam to a more central location to better serve the needs of the people to be fulfilled..