Tanzanian President John Magufuli has invited Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to lay the foundation stone of Tanzania’s Stiegler Gorge dam, which will be built by an Egyptian company, according to Egypt’s presidential spokesman Bassam Rady.

Magufuli made the invitation during a phone call on Sunday with El-Sisi, who accepted the invitation and said that Egypt looks forward to enhancing ties with Tanzania in various fields.

Magufuli praised the bilateral ties, joint economic cooperation and trade exchange between the two countries.

The Egyptian company Arab Contractors has won the tender to build the Stiegler Gorge dam, which is the most important national project for generating electricity in the African country, according to Rady.