Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged to focus the remainder of his term as EAC chair on improving governance structures and relationships among partner states.
On his EAC agenda for 2022, President Kenyatta is also keen on ensuring smooth operations of the Secretariat and organs by improving its funding mechanisms; on overseeing the admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo into the regional bloc; and answer the private sector’s call for the removal of non-tariff barriers.