The semi-defunct Kagera Basin Organisation (KBO) ended a two-day meeting in Kigali on Thursday with a call for merging with the East African Community (EAC), the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) and Rwandan radio reported. Ugandan Foreign Minister Eriya Kategaya noted that the KBO had been created in 1977 to replace the EAC. “Now that the EAC is revived, with Rwanda and Burundi as willing members, the secretariats should be integrated,” he commented. The KBO comprises Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. Rwandan radio said the ministers discussed a plan of action for recovery as the KBO was in a “critical condition”, both financially and institutionally. Kategaya expressed support for regional solutions to regional problems. “For instance problems which happened in Rwanda and which are happening in Burundi, it is good to handle them regionally here because we understand each other,” he said.
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