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EAC and ESAMI to partner on capacity building on regional trade issues

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 6th  March, 2023: The EAC Secretary General Hon. (Dr.) Peter Mathuki and the Managing Director of the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), Dr. Martin Lwanga, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a framework of collaboration in jointly developing training and capacity-building activities in trade-related areas, in a bid to foster greater business development and enhance the region’s competitiveness. 

The partnership between ESAMI and EAC will further undertake to provide training programs in all trade and trade-related areas of interest to the EAC and within the capacity of the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa (TRAPCA).

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43rd Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers currently underway in Bujumbura, Burundi

… Report of the Verification Mission on the Admission of Somalia into the EAC is among items on the Agenda

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 20th February, 2023: The 43rd Ordinary Meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers is currently underway via hybrid (physical and virtual) means in Bujumbura, Burundi.

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The five-day meeting from 19th – 23rd February, 2023 is being conducted through the Session of Senior Officials which ends on Tuesday, 21st,February 2022, the session of the Coordination Committee (Permanent /Principal/Under Secretaries) set for Wednesday, 22nd February, 2023 and the Ministerial session that will take place on Thursday, 23rd February, 2023. 

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(L-R) The Council to the Community, Dr. Anthony Kafumbe, the Chairperson of the Verification Mission, Mrs. Tiri Marie Rose, Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Abshir Omar, and the Special Envoy of the President of Somalia to EAC, H.E. Abdulsalam Omer in Mogadishu, Somalia.

EAC officially launches the Verification Mission to assess Somalia's readiness to join the Community

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 25th January, 2023: The East African Community (EAC) today officially launched the verification mission to assess the Federal Republic of Somalia’s readiness to join the Community.

The verification team comprising of experts from the EAC Partner States shall be in Somalia from 25th January to 3rd February, 2023, to establish the country’s level of conformity with the criteria for admitting foreign countries as provided in the Treaty for the establishment of the EAC.

Speaking during the official launch, EAC Secretary General Hon (Dr.) Peter Mathuki disclosed that the technical team in Mogadishu will engage Somalia to ensure that the verification was finalized and a report completed in time in readiness for presentation to the EAC Council of Ministers who will table it for consideration by the 23rd Summit of EAC Heads of State scheduled for the end of February 2023. 

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