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Fostering regional trade, resource mobilisation and integrating new Partner States to be at the core of EAC's new year agenda

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 9th January, 2024: The East African Community (EAC) is gearing up for the New Year with a stronger focus on fostering intra-regional trade, resource mobilisation and integrating the newest Partner States. 

EAC Secretary General, Hon. (Dr.) Peter Mathuki, highlighted the need to enhance intra-regional trade by optimising the implementation of the EAC Customs Union and Common Market protocols. Dr. Mathuki further emphasised the need to work together to eliminate Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) hindering intra-regional trade and expressed optimism about increasing intra-regional trade in East Africa to at least 40% over the next five years. 

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EAC ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION TO THE 2023 DRC GENERAL ELECTIONS

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 18th December, 2023: This is to notify EAC Partner States, Development Partners and all other Stakeholders that EAC will not physically be present in DRC to observe her 2023 General Elections as provided for in the Treaty Establishing the East African Community and as it has been the practice since the inception of the EAC. This development is due to the fact that although EAC was ready, the request to undertake the exercise has not been granted by the relevant authorities.

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Somali to sign Treaty of Accession with the East African Community today

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 15th December, 2023: The Federal Republic of Somalia is inching closer to joining the East African Community with the Horn of Africa nation scheduled to sign a Treaty of Accession with the bloc at State House, Entebbe, Uganda today.  

The Treaty of Accession will be signed by Somalia’s President Sheikh Hassan Mohamud and the Chairperson of the Summit of EAC Heads of State, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, who is also the President of the Republic of South Sudan. 

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