{"id":5015,"date":"2008-10-14T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:11:10","slug":"sadc-comesa-eac-joint-summit-to-tackle-overlapping-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/sadc-comesa-eac-joint-summit-to-tackle-overlapping-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC COMESA EAC Joint summit to tackle overlapping membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHALLENGE of overlapping membership among African regions comes under scrutiny in October as leaders of three trade blocs meet to find common ground on trade, customs and\u00a0 infrastructure development. Uganda hosts tlie joint summit of SADC, the Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) on 20 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol1_2_October_2008.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v11n2_2004.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/pre\/SADC_TODAY_vol1_2_October_2008.pdf\">English<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CHALLENGE of overlapping membership among African regions comes under scrutiny in October as leaders of three trade blocs meet to find common ground on trade, customs and\u00a0 infrastructure development. Uganda hosts tlie joint summit of SADC, the Common Market of East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) on 20 October. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/fv11n2_2004.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-1iT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}