Tanzania's frost relations with Kenya dates back to early 1960s

A good neighbour smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it according to the late American journalist and humourist Arthur Baer. This best sums up the relationship between Kenya and Tanzania.

At the height of Kenya’s longest doctors’ strike, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli assured a Kenyan delegation that his government would allow its doctors to get hired in Kenya. He later on changed his mind letting Kenya to solve its own health sector mess brought about by the 100-day doctors’ strike.