{"id":13710,"date":"2019-09-05T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13710"},"modified":"2019-09-06T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:39:12","slug":"eac-faced-with-several-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/eac-faced-with-several-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC faced with several challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

While responding to MPs\u2019 questions this September 5th, the Burundian Minister in charge of the EAC Affairs has said many challenges hinder the full integration of the community. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Isabelle Ndahayo says the East African Community is faced with financial problems<\/p><\/div>\n

Isabelle Ndahayo says some of the decisions taken by EAC institutions are not implemented due to the lack of will by member states.
\n\u201cThere is lack of follow-up of many projects,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

For her, some countries do not accept that the community\u2019s decisions be implemented because they are different from the internal political or legal context of each country.<\/p>\n

Terrorism is one of the challenges that some East African countries are faced with, she adds.<\/p>\n

This Minister in charge of EAC affairs says there are member states of the community which have culture-based laws. \u201cIt is difficult to convince those countries to adapt their laws to the EAC ones,\u201d she adds
\n\u201cThe EAC is also faced with financial problems,\u201d she says adding that diplomatic relations between some EAC members are not good.<\/p>\n

Pascal Nyabenda, President of Burundi National Assembly, says the financial contribution that every country is expected to give should not be equal since some member countries are richer than others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe free movement of students from one member state to another should be supported,\u201d he says adding that French should be fully integrated in languages used in the community.<\/p>\n

MP Pamphile Malayika says the project of customs union is a paradox in the East African Community. \u201cSome countries still do not allow their products or harvest to be exported to other countries of the same community,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He also deplores the fact that Burundians work few hours a day whereas in some countries people work 24 hours.<\/p>\n

He recommends the free movement of people and goods among countries of the EAC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe East African Community seems to be more in texts than in people\u2019s minds,\u201d says MP L\u00e9opold Hakizimana.<\/p>\n

He calls on the ministry in charge of the East African Community Affairs to teach citizens about the integration of Burundi in the Community.<\/p>\n

The East African Community is a regional intergovernmental organization of six partner states comprising Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While responding to MPs\u2019 questions this September 5th, the Burundian Minister in charge of the EAC Affairs has said many challenges hinder the full integration of the community. Isabelle Ndahayo says some of the decisions taken by EAC institutions are not implemented due to the lack of will by member states. \u201cThere is lack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,670],"tags":[747,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13712,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13710\/revisions\/13712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}