President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is to travel to Tanzania with the aim of appealing for Somalia to join the East African Community (EAC).
A communiqué from Villa Somalia indicates that President Mohamud will leave Mogadishu on Thursday, July 21 for Tanzania.
The headquarters of the EAC is in Arusha, Tanzania.
The Villa Somalia press release indicates that joining EAC would be beneficial to Somalia in several ways. For starters, it would increase Somalia’s trading partners.