there is nothing wrong with 3parties within a bloc meeting to advance their interests which do not affect one other member. Tz will not pull out of EAC soon. My discussions with some guy in the Tz gvt during some summit held in Kigali points to the fact that Tz feels they're still part of east africa. Infact, they feel we misunderstand them!

+1 this. Kenya, Tz, Ug,Rw,Burundi, infact all African countries are all artificial entities created 100 years ago by colonists. Before they landed here, these countries did not exist. Pissing contests between Dar and Nbi, Dar and Kigali, Nbi and Kampala or whoever do not add any value to anyone. It is like these two kids I remember in primary school who would always be competing to see who would be the second-last in class. They would work hard just enough to beat each other and not be the in the last position. Looking at the bigger picture, they both lost out. The real thing we should all be focusing on is getting rid of ignorance amongst ourselves and focusing on the pursuit of economic opportunities within Africa and the wider world. How can we be indulging in such nonsense while the sizes and productivity of our economies are smaller and less efficient than SME companies in the developed world? We still sell to the world tea, coffee, horticultural products, mainly agricultural stuff that is not even processed to increase value, and we buy everything else including the clothes, shoes, phones, even the coffee and tea we put in our cups every morning has been bought from us, processed abroad and resold to us at a profit to the foreign food company. These are the issues we should be facing, not small time races to nowhere among brothers.

And whose fault is that? Is it their responsibility to make themselves understood by putting their ideas across or is it our duty to understand them?

Anywho, I'm still hopeful the common market, with free movement of goods and labor, shall be a reality...soon.

Which way Tz? UP UP UP....like it or not...there is a difference between me coming to u & say I will build you the biggest port in the region than you coming to me...begging for biz...who has bargaining power? My next investment is in Tz...a pal is starting an agribiz there.. he is in NY right now...raising capital...I have been to Dar before & all I saw is potential...humble folks...curious to know...not the know it all attitude & inflated egos I see in Kenya....my track record speaks for itself...well its not like i hate Kenya...i have lived here for sometime & i like it here but the attitudes...the egos...the tribalism...this tyranny of numbers crap gotta stop if Kenya was to take a leap...for now its Tz...

Tz does what it does due to a massive inferiority complex. They are scared of Kenyans.

Tz has natural resources, Kenya has human resources. Tz is most stable politically in the region. The monolithic CCM will rule for the next century. Kenya is politically unpredictable, NARC, PNU, TNA.

Invest in Tz and import Kenyan skilled labour!

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But I think TZ’s entry into the fray in DRC alongside UN peace keepers is Kagame’s biggest beef with TZ. These other reasons being bundled around are just but sideshows.
M7 is quite in the mix with Rwanda as far as DRC is concerned, where’s the wisdom in asking him to mediate?

Kagame can only be appeased if TZ pulls out of DRC.

until they stop thinking in Swahili then they we can debate about whether or not they are going up.......as for now they are playing CATCH-UP. Remember our GDP nominal is bigger by more 10b USD and growing...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

dont even get me started on per capita GDP. Yes i know the numbers (low GDP per capita) are nothing to be proud of, but fact is with all those minerals, bigger land mass, bigger population they are still doing very poorly.

This blog: http://nakedchiefs.com/2...d-make-or-break-africa/ will be very interesting in the coming weeks/months.

I have known of some Kenyan hoteliers working for a top international hotel chain who took forever to acquire the work permits despite everything being in order. And even on landing there, one day some gov't official walked in and ordered them out hivyo tu fuaaa!