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

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East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 6^th  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

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

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

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