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EAC tables USD111M Budget proposal to EALA for Financial Year 2019/2020

 ….Industrialization and job creation -key priorities for bloc

East African Legislative Assembly, Arusha, Tanzania: 19 June, 2018: Barely a week after Partner States presented their respective budgets, the EAC has this afternoon presented for consideration, budget estimates for the Financial Year 2019/2020, totaling $111,450,529 to the East African Legislative Assembly.

The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, United Republic of Tanzania, Hon Dr Damas Ndumbaro, presented the budget speech on behalf of the Chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers and Rwanda’s Minister for State, EAC in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Hon Amb Olivier Nduhungirehe.

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Assembly meets in Arusha next week

…Agenda includes tabling of EAC Budget speech for next financial year


East African Legislative Assembly, Arusha, June 14, 2019: The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) resumes its sitting in Arusha, Tanzania, on Monday, June 17th, 2019, for the sixth meeting of its second session.

Topping the agenda of the Assembly to be presided over by Speaker, Rt Hon Ngoga Karoli Martin, is the tabling of the EAC Budget speech for the Financial Year 2018/19, the anticipated debate and enactment of a key piece of legislation and possible adoption of several reports. 

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Participants listening to a submission by Ms. Generose Minani.

South Sudan Private Sector and Civil Society sensitized on opportunities and benefits of EAC integration agenda

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, 12th June, 2019: A two-day training and sensitisation workshop for private sector and civil society on the opportunities and benefits of regional integration was held on 4th to 5th June, 2019, in Juba, the Republic of South Sudan (RSS).

The training and sensitisation workshop was jointly organized by the South Sudan’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and EAC Affairs; the EAC Secretariat; and the GIZ-EAC Programme, within the framework of the approved EAC Consultative Dialogue Framework (CDF).

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