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The Chairperson of the Summit of EAC Heads of State, H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, H.E. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, with the Treaty of Accession by DRC to the EAC after signing the Treaty at State House, Nairobi, Kenya.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo formally joins EAC after signing of the Treaty of Accession to the Community

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 8th April, 2022: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has formally joined the East African Community (EAC) after the signing of the Treaty of the Accession of the DRC into the EAC in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The Chairperson of the Summit of EAC Heads of State, H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta, signed the Treaty of Accession with the President of DRC, H.E. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, at State House, Nairobi. 

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Arusha District Commissioner, Mr. Saidi Mtanda lays a wreath at the Commemoration monument of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tusti in Rwanda at the EAC Headquarters gardens

EAC commemorates 28 years of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, 7th April, 2022: The East African Community Secretariat in collaboration with the Tanzanian Local Authorities in Arusha, the Arusha and Moshi Rwandan Community and the Embassy of Rwanda in Tanzania commemorated 28 Years of Genocide Against Tutsi today at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. 

The commemoration event themed “Remember-Unite-Renew” was preceded by a walk to remember and laying of wreaths at the Commemoration monument at the EAC gardens as a tribute to the more than one million innocent lives lost through the heinous extermination of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. 

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EAC to commemorate 28 years of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, 5th April, 2022: The East African Community Secretariat in collaboration with the Tanzanian Local Authorities in Arusha, the Arusha and Moshi Rwandan Community, the Embassy of Rwanda in Tanzania, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), The Pan African Human Rights Court, the Religious Denominations based here in Arusha, the Representatives of Students from High Schools and Universities of the Arusha region and EAC staff will commemorate the 28th anniversary of  the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on  7th April, 2022 at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. 

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