The Federal Republic of Somalia is officially declared the newest member of the East African Community after depositing her Instrument of Ratification of the Treaty of Accession with the Secretary-General Monday morning. The Federal Republic of Somalia is officially declared the newest member of the East African Community after depositing her Instrument of Ratification of the Treaty of Accession with the Secretary-General Monday morning.
Somalia becomes the bloc’s 8th Partner State, adding another 7 billion dollars of GDP to 303 billion as per the 2022 estimates, and as well brings with it 17 million people, making the EAC population, 320 million people. The Treaty of Accession was signed in December 2023 by Somalia’s President Sheikh Hassan Mohamud and Salva Kiir Mayardit the Chairperson of the Summit of EAC Heads of State and South Sudan President at State House Entebbe Uganda, before the host president Yoweri Museveni.
Apart from Uganda, the other seven Partner States are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Tanzania. Somalia’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Jibril Abdirashid Haji Abdi, presented the country’s Instrument of Ratification to Dr Peter Mathuki, marking the climax of the process of Somalia’s entry into the EAC.
