Kenya, Rwanda sign East Africa trade deal with Europe
From left, Kenya's Industrialisation and Trade minister Adan Mohamed, Rwanda's Finance and Trade minister Francois Kanimba, Slovakia's ambassador to the EU Peter Javorcik and Sandra Gallina, the European Commission's director of sustainable development; Economic Partnership Agreements for the African, Caribbean and Pacific region; Agri-food and Fisheries. Kenya and Rwanda have signed the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union in Brussels on September 1, 2016. PHOTO | COURTESY
Kenya and Rwanda have signed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union even as two of its EAC partners say the deal does not auger well for the region's economies.
The move, which comes hardly four months after the East African Community Council of Ministers agreed to have the member states sign the trade deal, is seen to likely cajole other EAC countries beat the September 30 deadline.
