{"id":368296,"date":"2011-04-05T02:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/05\/block-pirates-eac-member-countries-urged\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T02:07:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:07:55","slug":"block-pirates-eac-member-countries-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/05\/block-pirates-eac-member-countries-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Pirates, EAC Member Countries Urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51.559680883707\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angolapress-angop.ao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b10af6e2angop180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Angola Press Agency (Luanda)\" title=\"Visit Angola Press Agency (Luanda)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 4 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Dar Es Salam \u2014 The East African Community (EAC) secretariat has called upon member states of the trading bloc to jointly deal with Somali pirates whose attacks on commercial ships are stunting the region&#8217;s economies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although, there are measures taken by the respective EAC member states, to ensure peace and security, the region remains vulnerable to terrorism due to its proximity to Somalia and relaxed borders&#8230;.it&#8217;s time we jointly addressed security issues,&#8221; said Ms Beatrice Birungi Kiraso, the EAC deputy secretary general for Political Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing reporters about the EAC security meeting, held in Dar es Salaam on Friday, she said economic sectors of investment, tourism and trade will do well if all member states jointly address security issues.<\/p>\n<p>She said recent terrorism events in Uganda and Kenya were an alert to Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, hence the need to have the issue addressed jointly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As good people are moving from one country to the other looking for employment and doing business, under the EAC Common Market, bad people are also using that opportunity&#8230;We have our border posts but there is also a very long open land which has no restriction for people from neighbouring countries to cross,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the Dar es Salaam meeting, which involved security chiefs and intelligence agencies from the member states, would also come out with a strategy on the mutual legal assistance which will help to handle terrorism suspects in the countries.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104050080.html\" title=\"Block Pirates, EAC Member Countries Urged\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Block Pirates, EAC Member Countries Urged<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 April 2011 Dar Es Salam \u2014 The East African Community (EAC) secretariat has called upon member states of the trading bloc to jointly deal with Somali pirates whose attacks on commercial ships are stunting the region&#8217;s economies. &#8220;Although, there are measures taken by the respective EAC member states, to ensure peace and security, the region remains vulnerable to terrorism due to its proximity to Somalia and relaxed borders&#8230;.it&#8217;s time we jointly addressed security issues,&#8221; said Ms Beatrice Birungi Kiraso, the EAC deputy secretary general for Political Federation. Briefing reporters about the EAC security meeting, held in Dar es Salaam on Friday, she said economic sectors of investment, tourism and trade will do well if all member states jointly address security issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Block Pirates, EAC Member Countries Urged - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/05\/block-pirates-eac-member-countries-urged\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Block Pirates, EAC Member Countries Urged - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"4 April 2011 Dar Es Salam \u2014 The East African Community (EAC) secretariat has called upon member states of the trading bloc to jointly deal with Somali pirates whose attacks on commercial ships are stunting the region&#039;s economies. &quot;Although, there are measures taken by the respective EAC member states, to ensure peace and security, the region remains vulnerable to terrorism due to its proximity to Somalia and relaxed borders....it&#039;s time we jointly addressed security issues,&quot; said Ms Beatrice Birungi Kiraso, the EAC deputy secretary general for Political Federation. 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