DR Congo seeks to Join East African Community
The Democratic Republic of Congo formally applied for admission to the
six-member East African Community (EAC).
The vast natural resource-rich central African country is seeking to
join the regional bloc after various behind-the-scenes rapprochements.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi this week wrote to his Rwandan
counterpart Paul Kagame, who is the current chairman of the EAC, seeking to
join the Community whose member countries are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda,
Burundi and South Sudan.
“This request follows the ever-increasing trade between the economic
players of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those of the states of the
Community,” he wrote on June 8.
The desire of his government, President Tshisekedi observed, is to join
the Community of regional leaders “...
