East Africa: Leaders for crucial talks

The five East African Community (EAC) partner presidents from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are scheduled to meet in Arusha to peep into what has so far been achieved in the negotiations for the establishment of the EA Common Market Protocol, envisaged to commence early next year. The EAC Deputy Secretary General (projects and programmes), Ambassador Julius Onen, who has been at the forefront of the negotiations, was optimistic that the talks so far have been encouraging since the first session in November 2008 in Uganda.