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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] Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president of South Sudan, is the current ...
Valerie Nyirahabineza. Born. 1969 (age 54–55) Occupation (s) Civil servant, politician. Valerie Nyirahabineza (born 1969) is a Rwandan politician and civil servant. Since 2020, she has served as the chairperson of Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission. She served two terms, from 2008 to 2017 in the East African Legislative ...
First Assembly (2001-2006) The East African Legislative Assembly was inaugurated on 30 November 2001 as the legislative arm of the newly revived East African Community. [3] The Assembly met in Arusha, Tanzania, where the Tripartite Commission announced it would upgrade to a treaty. [3] Abdulrahman Kinana, an Elected Member from Tanzania was ...
East African Community countries also have active trade to other parts of the world, like the European Union. Each country is a part of the World Trade Organization except for South Sudan who remains out of this conglomeration. [3] As of 2014, these six countries have a combined GDP of $159.5 billion, GDP per capita of $918, total population of ...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) [11] is a free trade area encompassing most of Africa. [12] [13] [14] It was established in 2018 by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, which has 43 parties and another 11 signatories, making it the largest free-trade area by number of member states, after the World Trade Organization, [15] and the largest in population and geographic ...
www.comesa.int. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area which had existed since 1981. Nine of the member states formed a free trade area in 2000 ...
The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa group together individual countries in subregions for the purposes of achieving greater economic integration. They are described as the "building blocks" of the African Union (AU) and are also central to the strategy for implementing the African Development Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD).
Inaugural holder. Francis Muthaura. Formation. July 2000. Deputy. Deputy Secretary-General. Website. www.eac.int /about /leadership-team. This is a list of the secretaries-general of the East African Community since the re-established East African Community, after the EAC Treaty 1999 came into force in July 2000. [1]