New UNHCR Regional Director pays virtual courtesy call on the Deputy Secretary General in charge of Productive and Social Sectors

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 10^th July, 2020:  The new UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Director for the East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region, Ms. Clementine Awu Nkweta Salami, today paid a virtual courtesy call on the EAC Deputy Secretary General in charge of Productive and Social Sectors, Hon. Christophe Bazivamo.

The overall purpose of the Courtesy call was to introduce the new Regional Director, UNHCR Nairobi, Kenya Office, to the EAC Secretariat and reinvigorate the existing relations between the EAC and the UNHCR in view of the emerging challenges of the refugees in the EAC region.

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41st Extraordinary Meeting of the Council on Ministers underway via videoconference

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 10^th July, 2020: The 41^st Extraordinary Meeting of the East African Community Council of Ministers is currently underway via videoconference.

Among the items on the agenda of the 41^st Extraordinary Meeting of the Council are the Report of the of the Meeting of the Finance and Administration Committee held from 3^rd to 10^th March, 2020, including the Budget for the EAC for the Financial Year 2020/2021; and Human Resource matters including renewal of Staff contracts.

The Council of Ministers, which is established under Article 13 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC, is the policy making Organ of the Community.

The Council consists of: the Ministers responsible for EAC Affairs of each Partner State; any other Minister of the Partner States as each Partner State may determine, and; the Attorney General of each Partner State.

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Simon Peter Owaka
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Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Department
EAC Secretariat
Arusha, Tanzania
Tel: +255 768 552087
Email: sowaka [at] eachq.org

About the East African Community Secretariat:

The East African Community (EAC) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of six Partner States, comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

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