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.
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Until the late 1960s, education in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya served as a unifying force across the three states of the East African Community (EAC). Curricula and examinations were the same at almost all levels of education, as determined by the examination council of East Africa.
What does the East African common market mean to the Nile Basin Initiative?
The issue of free movement of persons and labour across the East African region has been mooted several times and has indeed been the subject of discussion at many regional fora. Yet it remains perhaps the thorniest issue for member states of the East Africa Community – Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
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