Can President Suluhu help to correct challenges that are as old as she is, at home and in the region? The Tanzanian president was a little girl of three in June 1963, when the three East African states held the now forgotten East African Federation Meeting. Like President Suluhu, Kenya’s second president, Daniel arap Moi, arrived in August 1978 in the wake of a national tragedy. President Suluhu has embarked on a cautious righting of some of these wrongs, without taking a condemnatory or self-righteous approach. When EASCO became East African Community in 1967, the three countries already had common postal and telecommunications services, the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation, the East African Court of Appeal, East African Development Bank, East African Airways and a common tax authority, to mention just a few key establishments.

Source: Standard Digital May 07, 2021 21:00 UTC