PROPERTY GUIDE: Foreigners’ right of access to land in Tanzania
What you need to know:
The right to access and use land and premises is enshrined under Article 15 of the Common Market Protocol, whereby partner states agreed to allow its citizens to use land and premises under the right of establishment and right of residence. This means a national of an EAC partner state, who is a non-national in the other partner state has first to fulfil the conditions of legal residence/or establishment before he is considered for the right to access land. This is when one’s right may be realised. This is the theoretical position on how a non-citizen from any EAC state can access land in Tanzania under the EAC Common Market perspective.
