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Travelling in EA? ID card is all you’ll need

Travellers at a check-point. The Kampala meeting endorsed the draft Common Market protocol. Photo/ANTHONY KAMAU

East African Community member-states that are ready to use national identification cards as travel documents in the region can go ahead and do so.

This was one of the resolutions of a meeting to thrash out controversial annexes to the establishment of the Common Market, after 17 months of negotiations.

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