The East African Community has officially welcomed its seventh member state - the Democratic Republic of Congo. That will add at least 90 million people to the bloc, bringing to 280 million, the new population of the East African Community. Other members of the Community include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan.
For more on this we are now joined by Zambian Economist Yusuf Dadio
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