Tanzania’s Zanzibar will be home to the first Indian Institute of Technology campus to be established outside of India. In the presence of Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, President of Zanzibar, and Dr S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of an IIT Madras campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania, was signed on Thursday between the Ministry of Education (MoE), IIT Madras, and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), Zanzibar, Tanzania.