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The Myanmar/Malaysia-India-Singapore Transit cable will land at M.R.C. Nagar in Chennai

EAC meeting convened to discuss sending personnel to eastern DRC where military has been fighting rebels

NEW DELHI: The government must allocate a bigger percentage of expenditure towards social services and the social sector to make the most-vulnerable population resilient to sudden shocks and stop their descent into poverty, a study commissioned by the economic advisory council (EAC) to the PM has said.

The seven countries of the East African Community (EAC) have agreed to set up a regional military force to try to end decades of bloodshed caused by militant activity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya said.

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

The central African nation of Congo has joined the East African Community, widening the trade bloc’s footprint with the admission of its seventh member

Nairobi (AFP) - The Democratic Republic of Congo was admitted Tuesday into the regional East African Community (EAC), a bloc with a single market allowing free trade and movement of citizens, the group said. 

African leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday with European leaders for a two-day summit that will inevitably discuss growth and trade. However, signing the long-awaited economic partnership agreement with the East African Community (EAC) regional bloc remains off the agenda, according to the Tanzanian Ministry of Investment, Industry and…