From The Star
East African citizens will from 2016 work in any of the member countries without paying for a work permit, EAC secretary general Richard Sezibera has said.
Sezibera said Burundi and Tanzania will join Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda in scrapping the fees by end of this year and next year, respectively. If that happens, the EAC will be edging closer to realizing free movement of labor, a key pillar to the common market protocol whose implementation deadline is next year.
The protocol, effected in July 2010, further provides for free movement of goods, services and capital. Kenya and Rwanda were the first to waive the charges and were joined by Uganda at the beginning of this year. The cost for a permit in Tanzania ranges between Sh525 and Sh262,500 ($6 and $3000). In Burundi, it ranges from Sh5250 and Sh7350($60 and $84).
EAST African citizens will from 2016 work in any of the member countries without paying for a work permit, EAC secretary general Richard Sezibera has said.
Sezibera said Burundi and Tanzania will join Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda in scrapping the fees by end of this year and next year, respectively.
If that happens, the EAC will be edging closer to realising free movement of labour, a key pillar to the common market protocol whose implementation deadline is next year.
The protocol, effected in July 2010, further provides for free movement of goods, services and capital.
Kenya and Rwanda were the first to waive the charges and were joined by Uganda at the beginning of this year.
The cost for a permit in Tanzania ranges between Sh525 and Sh262,500 ($6 and $3000). In Burundi, it ranges from Sh5250 and Sh7350($60 and $84).
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