The ceremony took place on Friday 8th April 2022 at Kenya’s Presidential Palace in the country’s capital, Nairobi.
The EAC Treaty has been signed in presence of Heads of State including Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Yoweri Kaguta museveni of Uganda and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya who is the current chair of EAC.
DR Congo became the seventh member of the Community on March 29 when the EAC Heads of State, during their 19th Ordinary Summit, admitted the country following recommendation by the Council of Ministers.
Since DRC was admitted recently, leaders have hailed its entrance into the bloc, terming it an opportunity for the bloc to become even better.
The entrance of the DR Congo into the EAC adds some 90 million people into the bloc’s already existing 177 million citizens.
Established in 1967, the EAC is a regional intergovernmental organization, also comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.
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