{"id":4686,"date":"2016-03-02T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:47:46","slug":"president-kagame-attends-17th-eac-heads-of-state-summit-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=4686","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends 17th EAC Heads of State Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/news\/President-Kagame-02032016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arusha, 2 March 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today in Tanzania, President Kagame attended the 17th East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit where leaders from five member states gathered to discuss effective ways to integrate the economy of the region.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s summit launched the new international East African e-passport, elected and swore in the new EAC Secretary General,\u00a0Liberat Mfumukeko of Burundi while the Chairmanship of the body remains<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>President Magufuli of Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The summit also saw the admission of South Sudan as the 6th member of the EAC. South Sudan joins, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. The Heads of State also launched the Private Sector Fund and Code of Conduct aimed at fighting corruption in the EAC.<\/p>\n<p>EAC Secondary School Essay Competition winners\u2019 were also awarded.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame also met with President Magufuli on the sidelines of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The one day Ordinary summit held under theme Advancing market-driven integration considered the annual Report of the Council of Ministers for the period November 2014- November 2015 and was preceded by\u00a0the East African Business Leaders\u2019 Summit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRwandan engineers&#8217; qualifications and certifications will now be recognised by all parties to the\u00a0existing\u00a0Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA).\u00a0This is a great win for\u00a0Rwanda\u00a0and Rwanda Engineering Council. Accession to\u00a0EAC\u00a0MRA enables engineers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda to trade services and also facilitates exchange of information, expertise and best practices within the region.\u201d \u2013 \u00a0<\/em>said Minister of East African Corporation, Valentine Rugwabiza at the Business Leaders\u2019 Summit.<\/p>\n<p>The last EAC Heads of State Summit was held in Nairobi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, 2 March 2016 Today in Tanzania, President Kagame attended the 17th East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit where leaders from five member states gathered to discuss effective ways to integrate the economy of the region. This year\u2019s summit launched the new international East African e-passport, elected and swore in the new EAC Secretary General,\u00a0Liberat Mfumukeko of Burundi while the Chairmanship of the body remains\u00a0President Magufuli of Tanzania. The summit also saw the admission of South Sudan as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}