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  2. East African Community - Wikipedia

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    The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation in East Africa. The EAC's membership consists of eight states: Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Federal Republic of Somalia , the Republics of Burundi , Kenya , Rwanda , South Sudan , Uganda and Tanzania . [ 5 ]

  3. History of East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Dark Green: East African Community Very Light Green: Central African Federation (Political: Defunct) Light Green: Geographic, including above. The history of East Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the major polities flourishing, the colonial period, and the post-colonial period, in which the current nations were formed.

  4. SECAM - Wikipedia

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    A true dual-standard PAL and SECAM video recorder therefore requires two color processing circuits, adding to complexity and expense. Since some countries in the Middle East use PAL and others use SECAM, the region has adopted a shortcut, and uses the PAL mixer-down converter approach for both PAL and SECAM, simplifying VCR design.

  5. East African Currency Board - Wikipedia

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    The East African Currency Board (EACB) was established in 1919 to supply and oversee the currency of British colonies in British East Africa. It was established after Britain took control of mainland Tanzania from Germany at the end of World War I, and originally oversaw the territories of Uganda , Kenya , and Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar ).

  6. East African Railway Master Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern African Railway Master Plan is not only taking new standard-gauge railways under the Master Plan into account, but also existing colonial era narrow-gauge railways, including Lake Victoria train ferries and pre-existing standard-gauge railways. It is planned to "rehabilitate" and to use some of the existing narrow-gauge railways in ...

  7. Corruption in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Corruption in the government of Kenya has a history which spans the era of the founding president Jomo Kenyatta, to Daniel arap Moi's KANU, Mwai Kibaki's PNU governments. . President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party government, and the current William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza administration has also been riddled with massive cases of graft, topping in the list of corrupt presitents in Africa ...

  8. EAR 59 class - Wikipedia

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    The EAR 59 class is a class of oil-fired 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives.The 34 members of the class were built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester, England, for the East African Railways (EAR).

  9. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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    The East African Community created an institution called the East African Kiswahili Commission (EAKC) which began operations in 2015. The institution currently serves as the leading body for promoting the language in the East African region, as well as for coordinating its development and usage for regional integration and sustainable ...