Samia to grace EAC lawyers meeting
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan will this week grace the 27th East Africa Law Society (EALS) annual conference and general meeting as part of her working tour in the region.
Themed Fostering East African unity and diversity in a Globalised practice environment, the largest gathering of professionals in law across the East African Community is set to bring together over 600 lawyers from across East Africa and beyond to discuss business, create networks and keep abreast with topical issues affecting the profession.
In 2021, lawyers from across the region showed their resilience, emerging from the hugely disruptive Covid-19 pandemic to attend the 26th EALS Conference in Zanzibar in big numbers.
“In keeping with our traditionally high standards, we have organised and tailor-made this year’s conference to suit every cadre of the legal profession, from young lawyers to in-house counsel to women practitioners to leading law firms and even those serving in public offices,” read part of statement availed to ‘Daily News’ by EALS.
According to apex regional bar Association of East Africa, this year’s theme has been carefully selected to discuss the expansion of the Community, arising opportunities for lawyers and how they can leverage the diversity and strength in numbers to achieve success in an increasingly globalised practice environment.
The gathering will also delve on a number of sub-themes including East Africa’s Natural Resource Potential as a driver for Economic Growth and Stability, which will seek to explore the natural resource potential of the region, its potential for driving economic development in the region and the role and opportunities for lawyers in natural resource extraction process.
With the entry of natural resource rich DRC in the EAC, it will also explore the risks relating to natural resources especially conflict related risks.
It will also dwell on the Rule of Law and Democracy as tools for Driving Development in the East African Community, a sub-theme which will look at the role that observance of rule of law and principles of democracy play in accelerating economic development in East Africa. Thematic discussions will look at continued repression of alternative voices in the region, loss of indigenous land rights, corruption and transparency, illicit financial flows and money laundering and recent geopolitical developments in the region.
According to the statement, the conference and the annual general meeting, they will be preceded by The Bar Leaders Round-table bringing together bar leaders from across the region and beyond to discuss changes in the legal practice environment and the preparedness of the profession to handle the changes.
The Bar leaders will share ideas and strategies that have worked for them in a fast-changing legal practice environment.
Before commencing her work tour in Arusha, President Samia will tour Manyara region to inaugurate a National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) new storage food storage facility.
The state-of-the-art facility features part of storage and silos that have been constructed in Songwe, Katavi, Ruvuma, Njombe, Shinyanga, Dodoma and Rukwa Regions.
The construction of such storage facilities is projected to increase the storage capacity from the current 251,000 metric tonnes to 501,000 metric tonnes of grain, and improve the working environment of the agency, governance and accountability.
