DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 16 -- THE journey to an East African Community (EAC) political confederation is taking shape as experts are now engaged in consultations in Burundi.
The constitutional experts are holding national stakeholders consultations as they go forth in preparations to draft the EAC Political Confederation Constitution that is expected to get completed by 2022.
The EAC Secretariat says the consultations that started on Tuesday in Bujumbura, Gitega, Ngozi and Makamba were launched on Wednesday by President Pierre Nkurunziza and are being conducted under the leadership of Dr Benjamin Odoki, the Ugandan retired Chief Justice.
The exercise goes on until January 20th.
"The objective of the consultations is to obtain stakeholders' v...