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EAC okays Kenya’s proposal to go it alone with European Union

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Nation | by Aggrey Mutambo


The East African Community member States on Saturday endorsed Kenya’s proposal for individual accession to a trade deal with the European Union, seeing it as a cure for continual wrangles over the agreement.

The decision first mooted in 2018 means each member State will decide when and how to enter the trade pact known as the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

First tabled in 2016, only Kenya and Rwanda had signed and ratified it while Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and South Sudan dragged their feet, arguing it could…

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