MOGADISHU, Somalia – The President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has touched down in in Bujumbura on Wednesday on an official go to to Burundi.
The president was accorded a heat welcome by his Burundian counterpart Common Évariste Ndayishimiye upon arrival in Bujumbura, in keeping with Villa Somalia assertion.
The 2 leaders held discussions centered on enhancing safety cooperation and Somalia’s upcoming bid to hitch the regional commerce bloc – EAC, the East African Neighborhood.
“It’s Encouraging steps in the direction of regional integration,” stated Somali data minister Daud Aweys in a pot on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
Somalia says it’s optimistic that its utility to hitch EAC, which has been pending for greater than 10 years now, will probably be accepted.
Somalia submitted its utility to hitch the EAC in February 2012.
The EAC, which is headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania, at the moment has seven member nations. They’re Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.
