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Jumuiya for Website Final JUMUIYA NEWS ISSUE 30 - JAN - MAR ,2015 A MAGAZINE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS World Bank Pledges 1.2 billion dollars for EAC Infrastructure MINISTRY OF EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS, COMMERCE AND TOURISM Issue 30 - Jan - Mar, 2015 1 JUMUIYA NEWS Contents Jumuiya News is the official magazine of the Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism. It is published quarterly by the State Department of East African Affairs, Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism. EDITORIAL BOARD Editorial Adviser/Chair: Contributors: John O. Konchellah, PS Peter Chege Kamau Michael Okidi Alternate Chair: Irene Musebe Alfred Kitolo Timothy Muellar Grace Wasike Editor: Noel Wandera Kaplich Barsito Effie Omondi Simon Owaka Secretary: Alice Yala Michael Okidi Photographers: Members: Bernard Mwendwa Alice Yalla Daniel Onyancha World Bank Guard Peter Kasango Simon Owaka Raphael Kanothi Michael Okidi 5 Pledges $1.2 11 Maritime Winnie Cheserem Benedict Wasiche Billion For EAC Sector Against Simon P. Owaka Infrastructure. Saboteurs PUBLISHED BY Master Brands Limited, BBC Bldg., Dar-es-Salaam Rd. P.O. Box 4006-00506 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 2712712, +254 20 2712713 [email protected] | www.masterbrands.co.ke Editorial: Infrastructure Development 5 Critical For Economic Growth Design, Layout, Creative & Art Direction Erick Omondi Ayara Samar Al-Kindy EAC Council Of Ministers Told To Mobilize 7 $100B For Infrastructure Projects All correspondence should be addressed to: The Principal Secretary, State Department of East African Affairs, 10 Boost For Kenyan Exporters As EAC Signs Co-operative Bank House, Haile Sellassie Ave. New Trade Deal With EU P.O. Box 8846-00200, City Square Nairobi. Tel: +254 20 2245741, +254 20 2211614 Counties Asked To Enact Integration Fax: +254 20 2229650 13 Friendly Laws Email: [email protected] | www.meac.go.ke Jumuiya News admits no liability for unsolicited articles or pictures, which must be accompanied with a self-addressed, 14 EA Monetary Union To Have Safeguards stamped envelop. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure Against Possible Financial Crises the accuracy of information contained in this newsletter, the writers, editor and publisher accept no responsibility for any loss, financial or otherwise, sustained by any person using this publication. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems or transmitted in any form by any means, without prior written permission from the Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism. COVER: President Uhuru Kenyatta assisted by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta launches the ONLINE MAGAZINE: construction of the Standard Gauge Railway in Mombasa. Also in the picture are Deputy For the online version of this magazine, with additional President William Ruto and Infrastructure and Transport CS Eng. Michael Kamau. material and an opportunity to air your views, please visit: www.meac.go.ke2 Issue 30 - Jan - Mar, 2015 JUMUIYA NEWS EAC Integration on the Right Track – Kandie Kenyan Cabinet Secretary (CS) for East “The single tourism visa is aimed at “Other key achievements include African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism, easing movement of tourists within the harmonization of classification of work Mrs Phyllis Kandie, is confident that three Partner States without the need permits and the elimination of work the East African Community integration for multiple national visas. The United permits’ fees by Rwanda, Uganda and process is well on course. Republic of Tanzania has also hinted that Kenya, operationalization of the East it will soon join this initiative,” she said. African passport and establishment of Mrs Kandie said the EAC was the special immigration counters for East world’s fastest growing regional On the free movement of persons, Africans at the various points of entry.” economic bloc and attributed its many which is one of the key provisions of the achievements to the political goodwill Common Market Protocol, Mrs Kandie Mrs Kandie later in November handed that the Community’s Heads of State said that Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda over the chairmanship of the Council of have for the integration. had also agreed to use national IDs, Ministers to her Tanzanian counterpart, voting cards and student IDs as travel Mr Samuel Sitta, during a meeting of the Mrs Kandie said the EAC was now documents among their citizens. Council held at the Kenyatta International the world’s fastest growing regional Convention Centre in Nairobi. Mr Sitta economic bloc with a combined Gross “We opted for ID cards because hailed Mrs Kandie for successfully Domestic Growth rate of 6% per annum. acquisition of passports is expensive steering the Community for the one year and requires a longer process. To this she was chairperson of the Council. The CS, who is the immediate former end, Kenya plans to upgrade its national Chairperson of the EAC Council of IDs to machine-readable ones from next Mr Sitta, Tanzania’s Minister for East Ministers, said the Community had year while Uganda is in the process of African Cooperation, said the key focus achieved several milestones during the introducing the same. The Partner States for the Council in the year ahead will one year that she was at the helm, and are also developing an EAC electronic be on the implementation of the Single cited as the most significant the signing passport (e-passport) for purposes of Customs Union, the Common Market of the Economic Partnership Agreements international travel,” she said. and the Monetary Union. (EPAs) between the EAC and the European Union. Mrs Kandie was addressing a media “This necessitates the elimination of non- breakfast meeting at a Nairobi hotel that tariff barriers and amendment of National “We have now concluded negotiations was purposely organised to act as a Laws to conform to the requirements of with the European Union on the EPAs. curtain raiser to the EAC Heads of State the Common Market Protocol in order to Both Parties agreed on the outstanding Summit meeting that was to be held on allow East Africans enjoy the freedoms issues and initialed the EPA documents November 30, 2014. we have agreed,” he said. to signal the conclusion of the EPA The CS said significant progress negotiations,” said Mrs Kandie, adding had also been registered in the He brushed aside fears among skeptics that the initialing of the EPA documents telecommunications sector particularly within and outside the EAC that the on 14th October, 2014, marked 8 years on roaming charges. integration process was stalling, insisting of intense negotiations. that the region would remain united “Beginning October 1, 2014, customers given the history and uniqueness of the She said the EPAs would enable both travelling across Kenya and Rwanda integration process. agricultural and industrial products from have been enjoying calls without roaming the EAC Partner States to access the EU charges. Essentially, it now costs The Minister urged the EAC Secretariat market duty free. KShs.10 down from KShs.25 to call and Partner States scale up sensitization across networks in the two countries. It efforts saying increased awareness The CS also singled out the adoption is expected that Uganda will soon enter would build confidence among wananchi of the EAC Single Tourist Visa by into this arrangement,” she said. and other stakeholders in the integration Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda as a major process. achievement. Issue 30 - Jan - Mar, 2015 3 JUMUIYA NEWS EDITORIAL Infrastructure Development Critical for Economic Growth he directive by the East African discovered significant deposits of oil and is expected to run all the way to Uganda Community Heads of State natural gas creating a huge potential for and Rwanda (with a branch to Kisumu). T Summit to the bloc’s Council of an extractive industry in East Africa. Most Ministers to mobilize $100 billion for the of these discoveries have been made in Other than LAPSSET and SGR, we also development of infrastructure projects areas with little or limited infrastructural have the Northern Transport Corridor over the next 10 years could not have development. To get these resources to road network which runs from Mombasa come at a better time. local and international markets, we must through Nairobi to Uganda, Rwanda and build modern roads, railways, refineries, South Sudan. Equally refreshing was the Summit’s power lines and ports. adoption of the EAC’s 10-year The Central Transport Corridor runs from investment strategy for priority regional Infrastructure development will inevitably Dar-es-Salaam to Bujumbura and Kigali. infrastructure projects. require huge financial outlays running Railway networks which are part and into billions of dollars. It is therefore parcel of these projects will revolutionize During the 3rd EAC Heads of State encouraging that at the infrastructure long distance transport in the region. Retreat on Infrastructure Development retreat, the World Bank through its These mega initiatives will hopefully and Financing in Nairobi on November Country Director for Burundi, Tanzania avail better connections for landlocked 29th, 2014, the Summit instructed and Uganda, Mr Philippe Dongier, countries to ports on the Indian Ocean the Council to mobilize the required pledged $1.2 billion (KShs108 billion) seaboard. resources by holding annual briefing for the development of infrastructure in roundtables for infrastructure investors East Africa, a move which will increase It is notable that Partner States have set and financiers in addition to showcasing
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