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East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 28 April 2010: His Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda today opened the 3rd East African Investment Conference with a call to Development Partners to cooperate with the East African Community to deal with strategic bottlenecks bedeviling the development of the region. The President named inadequate electricity supply, poor roads and railway systems, and inadequate ICT infrastructure among these.

Statement by the EAC Deputy Secretary General (Planning and Infrastructure), Mr. Alloys Mutabingwa at the media breakfast meeting on the forthcoming 3rd EAC Investment Conference on 24 April 2010 at the Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala

World Bank to launch report on doing business in the EAC at Conference

East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, 30 March 2010: The East African Community Secretariat has stepped up preparations for the 3rd EAC Investment Conference confirming the date and theme for the event due in April. The 3rd EAC Investment Conference will take place from 27 to 30 April, 2010 at the Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala, Uganda.

East Africa is proud to announce that Uganda will host the 3rd East African Community Investment Conference, in Kampala from 27th - 30th April, 2010.

The East African Community now stands as a region that operates under a fully-fledged Customs Union. In November 2009, the East African states signed the Common Market Protocol that will commence in July this year.