No payout for East African countries when disaster strikes
Food aid for residents of Kenya’s Marsabit County on January 30, 2019. Countries in East Africa have not signed the African Risk Capacity treaty. PHOTO | NMG
When a long drought hit the Sahelian states of Niger, Mauritania and Senegal in 2017, the African Union came to their aid with an over $25 million insurance compensation package.
None of the East African Community member states, in similar circumstances, would have attracted the same support.
