F. East African Community (EAC)

On June 12, at the second COMESA-EAC-SADC tripartite summit, the EAC agreed to start negotiations for a Grand Free Trade Area among the three blocks. The EAC and AfDB met on August 2, 2011, to deepen collaboration and to address the need to update and enrich the existing cooperation agreement between the Secretariat and the AfDB Group that was signed on 23 July 1998.