Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) has been working with East African Community member states on trade facilitation, with the goal of establishing borderless commerce. -------------Your organisation has been supporting trade and investment in East Africa for more than 10 years and is about to go into Strategy II. You seem to take more of an outside East Africa approach in your next plan of action? We are taking this experience and focusing on the external borders to East Africa, so the region can trade with its neighbours. I think the political will for Africa to trade itself out of poverty is there but the reality is, Africa is still insignificant in trade terms with less than five per cent of global trade.

Source: Daily Nation May 25, 2018 08:37 UTC