PRESIDENT MUSEVENI HAS EMPHASIZED NEED FOR EAST AFRICA INTEGRATION

By Our Reporter 

Uganda is committed to ensure the implementation of East African integration and that of Africa to create a big market for their products that will in turn lead to the prosperity of the people.

The President made the comment while speaking at the 21st virtual conference of the East African Community Heads of State that ran under the theme “East African Community at 20; Deepening integration and Widening Cooperation”

This was the first East African Community summit to be held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the participants at the summit included the out-going chairperson of the community President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and the incoming chairperson of EAC President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya.

Other leaders at the conference included the President of Burundi Evariste Ndatishimye and the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir while the President of the Republic of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli, was represented at the summit by his Vice President, Samia Suluhu Hassan.

President Museveni said he was happy to see some progress made by East African leaders towards achieving this goal of integration and added that the need for integration is driven by the urge to get a bigger market that will absorb products being produced by farmers that are beginning to wake up to embrace commercial farming.