{"id":33315,"date":"2018-02-23T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33315"},"modified":"2018-02-23T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T07:45:00","slug":"eac-admission-criteria-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/eac-admission-criteria-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC admission criteria questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Ssebuliba. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>East African Community (EAC)\u00a0leaders have been challenged to revise the criteria for admission of more members into the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The call comes as the 19th heads of state meeting that is underway in\u00a0Kampala is expected to discuss the possibility of admitting Somalia to the community.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mwambutsya Ndebesa a political analyst, EAC member states have disregarded the set criteria for admission of members and instead based on the need to add more members for the sake of expanding markets.<\/p>\n<p>He says countries like South Sudan and Somalia are far below the required standards of good governance, respect for human rights and other pillars, but heads of states went ahead to admit the former while the latter\u2019s application is being considered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Ssebuliba. East African Community (EAC)\u00a0leaders have been challenged to revise the criteria for admission of more members into the bloc. The call comes as the 19th heads of state meeting that is underway in\u00a0Kampala is expected to discuss the possibility of admitting Somalia to the community. According to Mwambutsya Ndebesa a political analyst, EAC member states have disregarded the set criteria for admission of members and instead based on the need to add more members for the sake of expanding markets. He says countries like South Sudan and Somalia are far below the required standards of good governance, respect for human rights and other pillars, but heads of states went ahead to admit the former while the latter\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}