Somalia’s Quest To EAC: “Somalia Belongs to East Africa”

[Deeq A.]

The newly elected president of the Somali Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud attended the 22nd East African Community (EAC) summit held, on 21tst – 23rd July 2022, in Arusha Tanzania, to renew an application of membership to the EAC bloc that Somalia made in 2012. The EAC, a regional intergovernmental organization, was founded in 1967 by then three heads of states: Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Milton Obote of Uganda. The bloc was dissolved in 1977 and was reestablished in 1999, contains seven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and the DR Congo which recently joined.

Source: Hiiraan Online