By Spy Uganda
Nairobi: Felix Tshisekedi, President of DRC together with President Uhuru Kenyatta, Chair of the EAC Summit of Heads of State have signed the Treaty of Accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to the EAC Friday at Statehouse Nairobi.
This follows the admission of DRC as the 7th member of the EAC during the 19th Summit of EAC Heads of State held on Tuesday 29th March 2022.
The Chair of the Summit of EAC Heads of State Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced this during the virtual meeting of 19th Extra-Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State.
President Kenyatta welcomed the move saying: “Admission of the DRC marks a momentous occasion in the region’s integration history.”
DRC is now the 7th member state of the East African Community.
President Tshisekedi arrived in Nairobi on a State visit earlier Thursday.
President Yower Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda are also in Kenya for the event.
President Kagame has arrived in Nairobi, Kenya to attend the signing ceremony of the treaty of accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to the East African Community @jumuiya. pic.twitter.com/5rjJbCP928
— Presidency | Rwanda (@UrugwiroVillage) April 8, 2022
Via his Twitter, Museveni noted, “I have arrived in Nairobi, Kenya for the Signing Ceremony of the Treaty of Accession to the East African Community by the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
The two leaders who have had a standoff for the last couple of years met before the summit as Museveni tweeted thus;
I met with H.E Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda shortly before we both witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to EAC at State House, Nairobi. pic.twitter.com/IOgakyJfNJ
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) April 8, 2022
“I met with H.E Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda shortly before we both witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to EAC at State House, Nairobi.”
