Accession hands EAC mandate to fix Somalia’s security

Somalia’s admission to the East African Community now hands the mandate to the bloc to fix the Horn of Africa country’s fluid and volatile security under the region’s strategy that seeks to guide regional level interventions in the peace and security sector, to respond to the nature and form of...

Too much, too fast? Somalia joins the East African Community

Despite the benefits, Somalia’s membership raises critical questions about the bloc’s ability to ensure regional stability.Somalia is poised to become the East African Community’s (EAC) eighth member state at the economic bloc’s December summit. This follows negotiations in August between the EAC and Somalia, hosted by the Kenyan government. (more…)