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Dar, Juba to sign protocol on South Sudan

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PRESIDENT John Magufuli, in his capacity as the Chairperson of the East African Community’s Heads of State Summit, will lead the delegation from South Sudan in signing the protocol which will see the world’s newest country join the regional bloc.

His Excellencies Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of South Sudan and Dr John Magufuli of Tanzania are therefore scheduled to sign the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of South Sudan into the East African Community (EAC) on Friday, April 15, 2016 in Dar es Salaam City, according to Mr Richard Owora Othieno, the Head of Corporate Communications at the Arusha- based EAC Secretariat. During their 17th Ordinary Summit held on March 2 here in Arusha, the EAC Heads of State received the report of the Council of Ministers on the negotiations for the admission of the Republic of South Sudan into the Community and decided to admit the Republic of South Sudan as a new member. The Summit then designated the Chairperson, His Excellency President Dr John Magufuli of The United Republic of Tanzania, to sign the Treaty of Accession with the Republic of South Sudan, which becomes the 6th member of the regional bloc which was revived in 1999 after the collapse of the original community in 1977. Other members of the EAC include the founding three -- Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania -- as well as Rwanda and Burundi that joined later in 2007. The admission of South-Sudan to the Arusha pivoted EAC now paves way to its neighbour, further north at Khartoum, to also be considered to become the seventh member of the regional grouping which was revived back in 1999. It was actually North Sudan, headquartered at Khartoum, which was first to apply to be allowed to join the East African Community. However, its request was placed on hold because in order for a country to be a member of the EAC it must share a common border with any of the initial five partner states. South Sudan which borders the two EAC member states; Kenya and Uganda in the South, apparently stood in-between Khartoum, but now having become member, it is possible for North Sudan to reapply and be considered to join East African Community. South Sudan now brings into the East African community an addition 620,000 square kilometres of real estate, boosting the region’s population with a total of 12.3 million more people. Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi, that formed the original East African Community (EAC) had over 150 million people between them, with the land measuring over 1.8 million square kilometres, 50 percent of which falling into Tanzania. Driving in the right, South Sudan traffic regulations will conflict with those in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania but complements the ones applicable in Rwanda and Burundi. Its South Sudanese Pound as medium of exchange may also find a tough time operating alongside the dominating ‘Shilling,’ as applicable in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

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