What EAC can do to help citizens during these tough times

President Uhuru Kenyatta leads his regional counterparts Felix Tshisekedi (DR Congo), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda) at the signing of the treaty of accession to the East African Community (EAC) by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on April 08, 2022. [PSCU, Standard]

President Yoweri Museveni made a State of the Nation address this week where he reflected on the challenges Uganda has faced over the last three and a half years.  

Notable challenges were; locusts, landslides, armyworms, Covid-19, terror attacks and rising costs of living among others. The rising cost of living in Uganda was caused by demand for commodities surpassing supply, use of palm oil as fuel created shortage of products that use it as raw materials like soap and the conflict in Ukraine and Western sanctions on Russia caused shortages of wheat, fertilizer and fuel.