One East Africa
Negotiations for implementing the East African Common Market are in final Stages and the it is supposed to be in place by January 2010. The independents Patrick Kagenda talked to Edith Kateme-Kasajja Director of the Ministry of East African Affairs on how much is covered.
The East African Community (EAC) made up of five (5) States namely Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as stipulated in the EAC Treaty Article 5(2) is intending to enter into the Common Market as a next stage of integration. The negotiations of a Draft EAC Common Market Protocol have gone through eight (8) rounds of meetings which started in April 2008 in Kigali Rwanda.
Until the late 1960s, education in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya served as a unifying force across the three states...
The Independent’s Patrick Kagenda discusses the East African Community common market with Gordon Mumbo, regional...
The issue of free movement of persons and labour across the East African region has been mooted several times and ...
Since the East African region has expanded to include Rwanda and Burundi, Uganda clays have already had a lot of b...
