Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Heads of State of the five-member countries of the East African Community (EAC) will hold their 10th Extraordinary Summit on 28 April, 2012, to consider, among other things, the application by South Sudan to join the regional bloc, the Community Secretariat announced Tuesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - East Africa’s Court of Justice (EACJ) has suspended a case in which several terrorism suspects claiming rights violations had sued Kenyan and Ugandan authorities in connection with the July 2010 Kampala bombing. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - East African Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and financial markets executives will discuss recent developments in the financial markets in Europe as well as the regional economy at a meeting in Tanzania next week, the Arusha-based East African Community (EAC) secretariat said Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - East African Central Bank Governors have launched a battle against the growing dollarisation of the regional economy and the contagious effect of growing consumer demand in South Sudan, as they move towards economic unity. Full text...

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Five East African countries - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania - have moved closer to a total ban on the use of plastics, after a regional legislative body passed a new law banning their use. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The East African Community (EAC) and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate in mobilising the Institute’s competence and capacities to support EAC’s regional integration agenda. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A senior official of the East African Community (EAC) has warned of new forms of insecurity threatening the five-nation regional body, citing the spillover effects of the long-running crisis in Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The East African Court of Justice Friday faulted Rwanda for violating the rights of its citizen, Lieutenant-Colonel Rugigana Ngabo, a brother to the exiled General Faustin Nyamwasa, who was jailed in absentia for 24 years. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan’s efforts to boost its diplomacy suffered a major setback on Wednesday after the East African Community (EAC) Summit rejected Khartoum’s request for membership. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – The joint high commission of the five-member East African Community (EAC) is expected to approve the membership application of newly-independent South Sudan on Wednesday, Rwanda's Minister to the East African Community, Mrs Monique Mukaruliza, told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Central banks of the East African Community (EAC) member countries will announce common measures later this week to tighten cash flows, as flaring inflation rates put regional economies under increased pressure, according to a senior official in the Bank of Tanzania. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Leaders of registered political parties in the partner states of the East African Community (EAC) will next week meet in Nairobi, Kenya, to examine their manifestos, establish areas of convergence and propose ways to participate in the regional political processes, it was officially announced here Tuesday.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Kenyan President Daniel Moi Thursday called on the East African Community (EAC) leaders to stick to the region’s plans for the formation of an East African Federation without any further delay. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Finance experts of the East African Community (EAC) entered the conclave on Monday to prepare for the 14th session of central bank governors of the sub-regional free trade area on ways and means to establish a monetary union. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Realisation of a single Customs territory and making the East African Common Market work are among priorities that the newly-appointed Secretary-General of the East African Community (EAC), Dr. Richard Sezibera, would like to achieve during his term of office. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Key regional stakeholders of the proposed natural gas pipeline from Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, to Mombasa, Kenya, Tuesday held a workshop in the Kenyan port city to consider findings of the feasibility study on the project that is expected to significantly contribute to diversification of energy sources within the East African region. Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza arrived in Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, on Sunday evening to attend the 9th summit of Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC), of which he holds the rotational presidency. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - By giving more prominence to youth entrepreneurship and sustaining awareness on employment opportunities, member countries of the East African Community (EAC) could combat rising youth unemployment and under-employment in the region, according to a regional workshop in Kigali, Rwanda. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The East African Community (EAC) plans to have a regional monetary union within two years might be overly ambitious unless the common market protocol currently in place is fully operational, an official said Friday.Full text...

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi has lost about 12 million euros in tax revenues since joining the East African Community (EAC) free trade zone in 2007, according to the Secretary General of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Sindiso Ngwenya.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Sudanese ambassador to Tanzania who doubles as the country's permanent representative to the East African Community (EAC), Abdelbagi Kabeir, has presented his credentials to the EAC Secretary General, Juma Mwapachu. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has said it wil l soon establish sub-registries in each of the five East African Community membe r states, in a move to take justice closer to residents of the regional economic b loc. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Burundi is ranked the most corrupt among the five East African Community countries,according to a new report by Transparency International (Kenya) launched here on Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Reeling out of a devastative drought of 2009, E ast African countries need to improve on their disaster preparedness, ensure foo d security and pay greater attention to environmental threats to the quality of l i ves of their people, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has told the East African Legislative Assembly. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Efforts towards economic integration by member countries of the East African Community (EAC) have paid off with increased intra-regional trade and higher government revenues, according to Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the bloc's current chairman. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) Secretary Gene ral, Juma V. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Despite the global financial crisis, which led to substantial decline in export demand and slowdown in foreign direct investmen t and private remittances, economies of the East African Community (EAC) have rem a ined relatively resilient, according to central bank governors in the region. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) Thursday partnered with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a US-based non-profit organisation whose mission is to help provide every child in the world access to a modern education. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat has stepped up preparations for the 3rd EAC Investment Conference, which will also herald the launch of the World Bank's EAC's Doing Business Report 2010. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The security of citizens of the East African Community (EAC) will best be guaranteed by securing the health of members of the armed forces of the EAC partner states, according to Rwanda's Defence Minister, General Marcel Gatsinzi. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The 9th Extraordinary Summit of the East Africa n Community (EAC) heads of state to address food security and climate change that had been scheduled for 26 March in Arusha, Tanzania, has been postponed to a later date, the EAC Secretariat announced Tuesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers was Friday scheduled to begin its 20th ordinary meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, to consider and make recommendations on several reports from organs of the regional organisation ahead of the Heads of State summit, scheduled for 26 March. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) Council of Mi nisters was Friday scheduled to begin its 20th ordinary meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, to consider and make recommendati ons on several reports from organs of the regional organisation ahead of the Heads of State summit, scheduled for 26 March . Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Eastern and Southern African countries are reso lved to create a huge free trade area spanning from Egypt to South Africa, but without a reliable railway network, their ambiti on would be unattainable, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete said here Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Legal experts and representatives of regulatory entities in member countries of the East African Community (EAC) Wednesday started a two-day conference here to work out a region al framework and mechanism for improving intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement against counterfeit goods threate ning public health and safety. Full text...

Dar es Salaam-Tanzania (PANA) -- The East African Community (EAC) and the UN Refu gee Agency (UNHCR) Tuesday unveiled here a framework for cooperation in areas of common concern, including the protection of forcibly displaced people and regulatory regimes affecting the movement of persons, immigration and refuge e management. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Partner states of the East African Community (E AC) will hold a two-day conference here next week with development partners to look into ways of revitalizing the dilapidated East African railways, once the backbone of the region's transport backbone. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Finance and economic planning ministers in the five member states of the East African Community (EAC) have adopted the regionâ?s road-map to a monetary union. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Finance experts in the East African Community (EAC) will start a five-day meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, Friday to consider the p roposed road map to the establishment of a monetary union of the five member sta t es forming the bloc. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Member states of the East African Community (EA C) Friday adopted a common strategy for food security as the best way for the region to ensure that there would always b e enough food for their entire population. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Member states of the East African Community (EAC) Friday adopted a common strategy for food security as the best way for the region to ensure that there would always be enough food for their entire population. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Member countries of the East African Community (EAC) and the US Trade and Investment Council were due to hold their first meeting Monday in Kampala, Uganda, to set policy guidanc e that would enable implementation of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) signed by the two sides 16 July 2008. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Governments of the five member countries of the East African Community (EAC) should refrain from protectionist inclination and g uard their common commitment to the Customs Union that came into force on 1 Janu a ry 2010, a senior official of the regional bloc has said. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Member states of the East African Community (EA C) target greater cooperation in defence matters in 2010, EAC Secretary General J uma Mwapachu has said. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The United Kingdomâ?s Department for Internati onal Development (DFID) and the International Office of Migration (IOM) have signed an agreement supporting the East African Community (EAC) in its effo rts to harmonise free movement of people in the region. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundidan Head of State, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Mond ay reaffirmed the determination of his country to move forward in its integratio n with the East African Community (EAC) by the abolition of visa fees and other i n ternal tariffs on products coming from this sub-regional group of free trade. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Burundi will receive a financial aid to the tune of 4. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The five East African Community (EAC) member states, inc luding Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, have launched negotiations on the formation of a regional Monetary Uni on. Full text...

Kisumu- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan legislators on Friday called for the signing of a new agreement on the use of water from Lake Victoria under the proposed Nile Bas i n Co-operative Framework. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Equity Bank, one of Kenya’s fastest growing locally-owne d financial institutions, said it would invest some 10 billion Kenya shillings i n regional expansion in Kenya, Uganda and Southern Sudan. Full text...