WHY SOMALIA NEEDS TO JOIN EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC): TAPPING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL
1.1 Introduction The “ East African Community (EAC) is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha ” , Tanzania. The aim of EAC is creating a successful, competitive, safe, steady and diplomatically united Eastern Africa and its Mission is to widen through augmented competitiveness, value added production, trade and investments. The states forming the EAC formed a customs union in 2005 and a common market in 2010. The process of regional integration is highly developed as shown by the encouraging advancement of the East African Customs Union and the formation of the common market in 2010. 1.2 Why Somalia Join EAC Somalia has been pushing and making efforts to joining the regional bloc. Somalia attempted joining the EAC between 2012 and 2017, though the corporation denied the application initially, alluding this to the fact that Somalia had intermittent co