A ranar Juma’a ne kasar Somaliya ta shiga cikin kungiyar kasashen gabashin Afirka (EAC) a hukumance, kungiyar da ke da kasuwa guda daya ta ba da damar zirga-zirgar kayayyaki da mutane cikin ‘yanci.
Kungiyar ta EAC dake da hedikwatarta a birnin Arusha na kasar Tanzania a yanzu ta kunshi kasashe 8 da suka hada da Burundi da Kenya da Rwanda da Tanzania da Sudan ta Kudu da Uganda da kuma Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo (DRC).
DRC ita ce mamba ta ƙarshe da ta shiga ƙungiyar yanki, a cikin 2022.
Kasashen mambobin sun “yanke shawarar shigar da Jamhuriyar Tarayyar Somaliya a karkashin yarjejeniyar shiga kasar”, in ji shugaban kasar Burundi Evariste Ndayishimiye, shugaban EAC mai barin gado.
Sanarwar ta fito ne daga Arusha a gaban shugaban kasar Somaliya Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud, wanda ya nuna matukar godiyarsa.
“Wannan lokacin ba kawai ƙarshen buri ba ne, amma haske ne na bege na gaba mai cike da dama da dama”, in ji shi.
An kafa shi a shekara ta 2000, ɗaya daga cikin manufofin EAC shine sauƙaƙe kasuwancin kan iyaka ta hanyar soke harajin kwastam tsakanin ƙasashe membobinta. Ya kafa kasuwar gama gari a cikin 2010.
Ban da Somaliya, kasashen EAC suna da fadin kasa murabba’in kilomita miliyan 4.8 kuma suna da jimillar jimillar kudin gida na dala biliyan 305, a cewar shafin yanar gizon kungiyar.
Tare da yawan jama’a kimanin miliyan 17, Somaliya tana da bakin teku mafi tsawo a nahiyar Afirka (fiye da kilomita 3,000), wanda ya kawo kasuwar EAC ga fiye da mutane miliyan 300.
Gwamnatin Somaliya da ke samun goyon bayan kasashen duniya, ta shafe shekaru sama da 16 tana yakar ta’addancin masu tsatsauran ra’ayi, kungiyar da ke da alaka da al-Qaeda.
Kasashen Kenya da Uganda na bayar da gudunmawar dakaru ga rundunar Tarayyar Afirka da aka girke a Somaliya domin yakar ‘yan tawaye.
Shigar da Somaliya shiga cikin EAC, wani muhimmin mataki ne na faɗaɗa ƙungiyar zuwa Gabashin Afirka, in ji cibiyar nazarin manufofin tarihi da ke Mogadishu, amma ta yi nuni da “rashin talaucin Somaliya game da shugabanci, ‘yancin ɗan adam da kuma bin doka da oda. ” wanda zai iya kawo cikas ga shigarta cikin kungiyar.
Africanews/ Ladan Nasidi.
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