ISDS Case Map
EAC
It is now a year and half since Rwanda and Burundi acceded to the East African Community (EAC). Things now seem moving faster.
Lack of political will and enforcement of protocols and treaties is dragging the implementation of the regional integration process, the East African Community (EAC) Chairman and Rwandan President, Mr Paul Kagame has said.
The 6th East African Community (EAC) Common Market talks ended Wednesday positively with negotiators reaching a consensus on new issues.
Agricultural and development economies in Sub-Saharan Africa are the flavour of the month. The global credit crisis, wide-scale economic meltdown and financial recession have sparked a wave of interest about the implications for Africa. It is crucial that this discussion happens.
Trade negotiations between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) must include a development agenda, a senior trade official has said.
Twenty six African countries, a single market and open borders that allow persons to move across freely and conduct business. That was the vision of the Tripartite Summit that took place in Kampala last week. President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania called it “a landmark summit for a landmark decision” while President Yoweri Museveni said it was “historic”.
The planned common market of the East African Community (EAC) that is expected to become operational in 2010 will not affect Tanzania's land policy, it has been said. Opening a parliamentary seminar that discussed the EAC common market debate here yesterday, the Minister for East African Cooperation Dr Diodorus Kamala insisted that foreigners would not be given mandate to buy or own land in Tanzania.
The proposed merger of the EAC, SADC and COMESA will help reduce the cost of doing business for companies within the 26 countries and boost foreign direct investment (FDI) to levels never seen before.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has challenged three East African Community (EAC) partner states to agree to one regional trade bloc in order to make the customs union (CU) more effective.
A 'white document' meant to facilitate negotiations between regional economic blocs and the European Union (EU) under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) has been finalised.
