EAC bids farewell to Amb Liberat Mfumukeko

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……..As the community gets a new Secretary General 

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 24^th April, 2021: The East African Community Council of Ministers, Organs and Institutions and other stakeholders of the Community, on Friday bid farewell to the outgoing Secretary General, Amb. Liberat Mfumukeko at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. 

Amb Mfumukeko assumed office as the 5^th EAC Secretary General on 26^th April, 2016 for a five-year, non-renewable term. His tenure as the EAC Secretary General ends on 25^th April, 2021. 

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EAC Partner States to largely retain their national sovereignty under the proposed EAC Political Confederation

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East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 24^th April, 2021: East African Community Partner States shall largely retain their national sovereignty under the proposed EAC Political Confederation, this is according to Justice Benjamin Odoki, the Chairperson of the Committee of Experts tasked with drafting a model constitution for the confederation. 

Justice Odoki further disclosed that the Political Confederation would ideally be vertical in that it would deal directly with Partner States rather than EAC citizens. 

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