East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 25th October, 2024: East African Community (EAC) Partner States have been called upon to eliminate all physical and non-physical barriers to transportation to enhance cross-border trade and economic growth in the region.
Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport, Hon. Davis Chirchir, further underscored the role of transportation in facilitating the movement of people, goods, services and resources and improving access to local and international markets.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 22nd October, 2024: The 19th Meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Sectoral Council on Transport, Communications and Meteorology is currently underway in Mombasa, Kenya with the liberalisation of the Upper Airspace and reduction of air fares in the region high on the agenda.
Also on the agenda of the five-day meeting are the consideration of the status of regional programmes and projects under the railways, roads, maritime, communications and meteorology sub-sectors.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 22nd August, 2024: The East African Community (EAC) Deputy Secretary General in charge of Infrastructure, Productive, Social and Political Sectors, Hon. Andrea Aguer Ariik, has urged EAC Partner States to expedite the signing of the EAC Air Transport Market (Liberalisation) Regulations as part of efforts to enhance regional integration and stimulate economic growth in East Africa.
Hon. Ariik’s plea comes in the wake of concluded development of the Regulations for Liberalisation of the Air Transport Market in the EAC Region. The regulations are expected to be submitted to the 19th Meeting of EAC Sectoral Council on Transport, Communication and Meteorology (SC-TCM) for adoption.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 2nd August, 2024: The East African Community (EAC) One Network Area (ONA) has expanded with the entry of the Republic of Burundi effective 1st August, 2024.
In a communiqué to the public dated 29th July, 2024, the Burundi Telecommunications Regulation and Control Agency (ACRT) announced the entry into force from 1st August, 2024 of new tariffs for regional roaming in accordance with the directives of Decree No. 100/202 of 2nd October, 2023 on the accession of Burundi to the EAC ONA.
Burundi now joins Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania as Partner States that have implemented the ONA that effectively reduces the high cost of telecommunications in the region.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 19th July, 2024: The East African Community (EAC) together with the Republics of Kenya and Uganda are in the process of upgrading the Lwakhakha border post on the common border between the two Partner States into a One-Stop Border Post (OSBP) as part of efforts to reduce congestion at the Busia and Malaba OSBPs.
The transformation of the Lwakhakha border into an OSBP seeks to streamline customs procedures, reduce clearance times for goods and vehicles, and enhance collaboration between border agencies from both Kenya and Uganda.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 15th July, 2024: The East African Community (EAC) in partnership with the Internet Society - Uganda Chapter, are set to host the 11th edition of the East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF) in September this year.
The Forum will take place from 11th to 12th September, 2024 in Kampala, Uganda, under the theme “Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future for East Africa.”
The primary objective of the EAIGF is to create an inclusive, multilateral, multi-stakeholder and multilingual discussion platform. The platform addresses crucial issues that enhance Internet development and governance in East Africa.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 24th April, 2024: The feasibility studies for the 256km multinational Kisumu-Kisian-Busia/Kakira-Malaba-Busitema-Busia expressway is set to start soon after EAC officially handed over the site to the consultancy firm named GOPA Infra Gmbh of Germany together with ITEC Limited of Kenya.
The expressway that will run from Kisumu in Kenya to Kakira, a town Jinja district, will involve rehabilitation of the existing two-lane single-carriageway to bitumen standards and the upgrading of the same into a two-lane dual carriageway over a 104km stretch.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 5th December, 2023: The East African Community (EAC) has the largest share of projects financed by the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD IPPF).
The EAC Secretary General, Hon. (Dr.) Peter Mathuki, attributed this achievement to the comprehensive governance framework for projects management that has been put in place by the Community.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 31st October, 2023: The African Development Bank (AfDB) through its New Partnership for Africa’s Development and Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (NEPAD-IPPF) has approved US$1.4 million grant to EAC for the feasibility study of the Multinational Kenya/Uganda: Kisumu-Kisian-Busitema-Busia Expressway Project.
The Expressway project is part of the Northern Corridor that runs from Mombasa to Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda through the port of Mombasa. It is the main corridor that transports the bulk of cargo that lands at the Indian Ocean ports inland to the five landlocked EAC Partner Sates.
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 5h October, 2023: The East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) have today kicked off the 1st EU-EAC Regional Conference on Digital Transformation in the East African Community, in Arusha, Tanzania. Both sides committed and agreed to foster a human-centric digital transformation in East Africa to utilise digital technologies and innovations for regional integration.
The two-day conference, facilitated by the Digital for Development (D4D) Hub, unites key stakeholders from the EAC region and European partners. This collaborative effort aims to assess the current state of digital transformation in the region and explore opportunities through a “Team Europe” initiative, which includes the EU and its Member States. The conference’s attendees include representatives from the EAC Secretariat and other EAC Institutions, ICT Ministries of EAC Partner States, the EU Delegation to Tanzania and the EAC, and EU Member States.
