It will take time before we achieve a robust common market in which labour and capital can flow freely.
The protocol signed in Arusha last month by the regional leaders reveals that free movement of workers and professionals will only come in phases, stretching all the way to 2015.
So far, Rwanda remains the only country in the region to have abolished all work permit requirements for East African community citizens. Existing restrictions on the buying and trading of shares and stocks within the region will also be lifted in phases.
The gradual pace at which the common market is being implemented notwithstanding, the Arusha protocol has made the EAC by far the most advanced trading bloc in Africa.
Indeed, the EAC is now way ahead of its two main rivals, the Common Market for Eastern Africa (Comesa) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
Emerging at a time when sub-Saharan Africa has multiple trading blocs with overlapping memberships, the EAC now has what it takes to play the role of an anchor between them.
However, this situation is beginning to create subterranean battles for loyalty, especially between Comesa, SADC and the EAC.
The saving grace is that Comesa has also turned unto a full customs union. Even more significant, it has borrowed the EAC common external tariff and adopted it as its own.
The implication is that it is now possible for Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi to continue trading amongst themselves under the EAC customs union, while at the same time maintaining a preferential free trade area relationship under Comesa.
Trade experts also say it is still possible for the EAC as the most advanced trading bloc to enter into formal partnership agreements with Comesa and SADC.
A Comesa Heads of State meeting in Kampala last year called for a single free trade area covering all the 26 countries of Comesa, EAC and SADC.
This is what the region should strive for in the medium term. More trade, not aid, is what will save Africa.
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Even if an African invented anything they would put a white face on it or less it would never be recognized as a legitimate invention. The music of Black Mambozo couldn't be recognized world wide until whit face in the name of paul Simon was put on it. It has nothing to do with intelligent quotiets which are have a cultural and political bias. In any case when asians, who are as good copiers as anybody else, copy, it is called inventiveness.
HeyNow Afrikan Family !
On Afrikans Investing In Technology , Afrikans abroad & In Afrika
Should Invest In The Technologies around the world And Have It
Shipped To Afrika With The Know-How To Do It Ourselves.. We
SHOULD NOT just allow countries to come into our countries and build
and settle on our lands. If you will allow a stranger to run your country,
Then you will allow then to run your state. If you will allow a stranger to run your state,
then you will allow them to run your city, your neighborhood, your home, your family,
yourself.. We Black Afrikans will be free , when we stop selling ourselves !!!!!!!
America (The Whore Of Babylon) Is Trying To Re-vive it'as dying
soul via other ASIANS & CAUC - ASIANS , But Prophecy Is
Pronounced :
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of
the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR
PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT
THEY SHALL FALL ! [Daniel 11:14 ]
ATTENTION AFRIKA , you have 300 million citizens spread
abroad that need your help getting back to our roots. While you
are looking to countries like America & China to uplift Afrika, Many
of us Black Afrikans spread abroad are proficient in a lot of useful
technologies. Here is a brief synopsis of some of the inventions
that Black Americans have produced. So please help us to get
home.
BLACK AFRICAN INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS
* Sarah Boone - IRONING BOARD - April 26, 1892
* John A. Burr - LAWN MOWER
* Marie V. Brittan Brown - HOME SECURITY SYSTEM - Dec 2, 1969
* Buridge & Marshman - TYPEWRITER
* George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE
* George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS PAINT STAINS ETC
* W.A. Dietz - SHOE
* P.B. Downing - POSTAL LETTER BOX
* Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM
* T. Elkins - TOILET (COMMODE)
* Robert Flemming Jr. - GUITAR
* George F. Grant - GOLF TEE
* J. Gregory - MOTOR
* Michael Harney - LANTERN
* Augustus Jackson - ICE CREAM
* B.F. Jackson - GAS BURNER
* H.A. Jackson - KITCHEN TABLE
* Ruane Jeter - DIGITAL TOASTER - April 14, 1987
* Isaac R. Johnson - BICYCLE FRAME
* John A. Johnson - WRENCH
* P. Johnson - EYE PROTECTOR (GOGGLES)
* W. Johnson - EGG BEATER
* Frederick M. Jones - DEFROSTER - REFRIGERATION CONTROLS AIR CONDITIONER
* Jones & Long - BOTTLE CAPS
* John H. Jordan - CLOTHES DRESSER
* Mary B. Kenner - SANITARY BELT (TAMPONS) - May 15, 1956
* Mary B. Kenner - BATHROOM TISSUE HOLDER - Nov 19, 1982
* Mary B. Kenner - BACKWASHER ( BATHTUB OR SHOWER MOUNTED) - July 29,1987
* Lewis Latimer & Nichols - ELECTIC LAMP
* W.A. Lavalette - PRINTING PRESS
* Maurice W. Lee PRESSURE COOKER
* A.L. Lewis - WINDOW CLEANER
* John L. Love - PENCIL SHARPENER
* Tony J. Marshall - FIRE EXTINGUISHER
* Alexander Miles - ELEVATOR
* Jan E. Matzeliger - SHOE LASTING MACHINE
* W.A. Martin - LOCK
* Garrett A. Morgan - GAS MASK - Traffic Signal
* Lydia Newman - HAIR BRUSH - Nov 15, 1898
* Alice H. Parker - HEATING FURNACE - Dec 23, 1919
* J.F. Pickering - AIR SHIP (BLIMP)
* Purdy & Sadgwar - FOLDING CHAIR
* W.B. Purvis - FOUNTAIN PEN
* L.P. Ray - DUST PAN
* W.H. Richardson - BABY BUGGY
* G.T. Sampson - CLOTHES DRYER
* .W. Smith - LAWN SPRINKLER
* J. Standard - REFRIGERATOR
* T.W. Stewart - MOP
* Paul E. Williams - HELICOPTER
* Granville T. Woods - Roller Coaster
* Thanks to The Black Inventors Museum *
* Address : P.O. Box 76128 - Los Angeles , Calif. (90076)
* Phone (310) 859-4602)
* Director : Ghanaian Mr. Hamza Salifa
AND
ONE AFRICA TOURS & SPECIALTY SERVICES LTD.
* Major Contributor of Information : SEESTAH Imahkus Nzinga Ababio Okofo
[ http://www.oneafricaghana.com/ ]
P. O. Box CC 1251 - Cape Coast
Ghana - West Africa
What can you do to help us ?
Start with contacting Pan-Afrikanist organizations like BLACK
STAR MEDIA (Modelled after Marcus Garveys Vision For Afrika) : They are at
[ www.libradio.net ]. The CEO of BLACK STAR MEDIA is Keidi-Obi
Awadu. He has been on the frontline fighting for our freedom for
over 30 years.
It's Not A Question Of Other Learned Societies.
It's The INFERIORITY COMPLEX WE HAVE TO SHED
St. Paul In A Letter To The Christians In Rome Said :
" For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is
among you, NOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF MORE HIGHLY Than
He Ought To Think; but to think soberly, according AS GOD HAS
D EALT TO EVERY MAN THE MEASURE OF FAITH .
We All Should Think Highly Of Ourselves, Keeping In Our Mind
That God Gave Us Dominion Over The Earth
, NOT EACH OTHER. !!!!!!!!
So let's please help us to return to our Mama Afrika as Israel
under Moses escaped their exile !!!!!!!
[ Their will be an exodus of nations leaving America ; returning to their ancestral homes
e.g. Black Africans to nations like Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc ]
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 16
Cut off the sower from Babylon ;and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest
For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and
THEY SHALL FLEE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN LAND .
MAMA AFRIKA YOUR CHILDREN WANT TO COME HOME !!!!!!!
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to upliftdarace_144:
Oh my! How uninformed you are.
None of those things were ever invented by the Africans. Never do the Africans invent things. The examples you noted above are of people who hold some patents on items that White European people have invented. Interestingly enough, none of the people you cited has an African name...thats because the Africans cannot invent or built anything. But they are very skilled at breaking and destroying things. Look at the DRC or Zimbabwe. The Africans have an IQ 20% below of their Oriental counterparts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race,_Evolution,_and_Behavior. So give us a break and go back to your hut.