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OBBO: East Africa is in a mess because of its own success

President Yoweri Museveni (centre) hands over the EAC chairmanship to President Paul Kagame in Arusha on February 1, 2019, as President John Magufuli looks on. PHOTO | FILBERT RWEYEMAMU

By  Charles Onyango-Obbo

Columnist

East African leaders are not shy travellers. When it comes to assembling in faraway China, they are there. When it’s time to turn up in frigid Russia, they are there.

However, when it comes to hopping over to Arusha, in Tanzania, to meet over our East African Community affairs, as was supposed to happen on November 30, it is a trip too far. The summit has now been postponed to January, and even possibly February 2020, who knows?

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