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Daily Monitor
Sunday March 07 2021
L-R: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Tanzania’s John Pombe Magufuri and their Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Arusha, Tanzania, in March 2016. PHOTO/ FILE
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Once upon a time, the East African Community (EAC), a six-member regional bloc of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan – admitted in 2016 – was both vibrant and buoyant. Not just to keen observers, but anyone could tell it had a sense of purpose.
What exactly happened is a long story. But it began with Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda forming a loose association, which has since fizzled out, within the bloc.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 02 2021
Finance Minister Matia Kasaija addresses NSSF members. Parliament on February 17 amended Section 24 of the existing by inserting Section 24a, which allows workers mid-term access to their savings. PHOTO | KELVIN ATUHAIRE
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Others legible for mid-term access. A person with a disability who lacks gainful employment or fails to generate income and is unable to make contributions to the Fund for less than one year should access up to 75 per cent of their contributions upon application. The clause was further amended to allow members with disabilities who cease to be employed for a period not less than one year to withdraw 75 per cent of their accrued benefits.
Crisis in Georgia?
Wed, Mar 3, 2021 9:00 AM
With the high-profile arrest of UNM opposition leader Nika Melia, Georgia may be in a new political crisis. How dangerous is the situation and what can be done to deescalate tensions to ensure Georgia’s democratic future?
Georgia once again faces a political crisis. On February 23, Georgian police broke into the offices of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party to arrest UNM leader Nika Melia on what his team says are politically motivated charges. Melia was arrested shortly after former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Garibashvili assumed the office of prime minister after his predecessor, Giorgi Gahkaria, resigned over plans to arrest UNM leader Nika Melia. After protests broke out over the arrest, Garibashvili issued a statement proposing that “all reasonable opposition forces enter parliament so that we may use the country’s legislature as the main platform for discussion.” Melia’s arrest is the latest in a se
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