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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on March 11, 2016, 05:35:31 PM
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As anarchy continues in the homeland. In one incident 60 are locked up and suffocated in a shipping container by Salva Kiir's soldiers (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/11/amnesty-accuses-south-sudan-war-crime-shipping-container-deaths). This doesn't matter in East Africa, he is a head of state.
Ambassador Rugwabiza says the admission of South Sudan is most historical. Where does Ethiopia with 80 million+ people, currently not mindlessly slaughtering each other if in need of food aid, stand on EAC?
By James Karuhanga
The decision to admit South Sudan as the sixth member of the East African Community is one of the most "historical" by the EAC Heads of State Summit, Amb. Valentine Rugwabiza, the minister for EAC affairs has said.
Rugwabiza was Tuesday briefing journalists in Kigali after last week's events at the seventeenth Ordinary Heads of State Summit in Arusha, Tanzania, at which South Sudan was admitted to the Community after more than three years of negotiations.
The minister, however, explained that the country will need some capacity building to be able to implement all the requisite membership instruments.
"There are some provisions that were part of their admission. These provisions do not appear in the communiqué. However, there was some flexibility provided to the Republic of South Sudan, and the reasons for that flexibility was to give them time and to also let them acquire enough capacity to be able to implement programmes and provisions of the EAC Treaty," Rugwabiza said.
She said Juba was provided with a transition period of three years before implementing the Customs Union.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201603090150.html (http://allafrica.com/stories/201603090150.html)
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That is good move for both EAC and SS..at least trade and movement wise. Now all those SS refugees should be treated better.
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SS has become ungovernable shit hole.. Kiir needs to go
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That is good move for both EAC and SS..at least trade and movement wise. Now all those SS refugees should be treated better.
What trade? What movement? Better treatment from whom? Here are the "credentials" of the newest member of the EAC:
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/03/11/un-accuses-south-sudan-forces-of-campaign-of-rape-killing_c1311468
"Added value" is not what comes to mind.
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That is good move for both EAC and SS..at least trade and movement wise. Now all those SS refugees should be treated better.
What trade? What movement? Better treatment from whom? Here are the "credentials" of the newest member of the EAC:
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/03/11/un-accuses-south-sudan-forces-of-campaign-of-rape-killing_c1311468 (http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/03/11/un-accuses-south-sudan-forces-of-campaign-of-rape-killing_c1311468)
"Added value" is not what comes to mind.
Ongoing massacres and rapes ensure that there is little risk of that corner starting to develop anytime soon . It's not even clear what the end game is between Riek Machar and Salva Kiir, let alone East Africa.
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The more reason for celebrate this. At least SS citizen can now easily migrate to kenya and re-start their lives without being harrassed by our corrupt cops. Trade wise...SS has gold, oil and all those minerals that we can now easily import.
A messed up SS is still better neighbour in EAC than outside.
What trade? What movement? Better treatment from whom? Here are the "credentials" of the newest member of the EAC:
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/03/11/un-accuses-south-sudan-forces-of-campaign-of-rape-killing_c1311468
"Added value" is not what comes to mind.