{"id":74,"date":"2026-06-18T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:12:38","slug":"president-kiir-assents-to-east-african-community-acts-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Assents to East African Community Acts 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/45a75318-c9f4-41d6-8b3b-1a6fdccfb891.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/45a75318-c9f4-41d6-8b3b-1a6fdccfb891.webp 1280w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/45a75318-c9f4-41d6-8b3b-1a6fdccfb891-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/45a75318-c9f4-41d6-8b3b-1a6fdccfb891-1024x576.webp 1024w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/45a75318-c9f4-41d6-8b3b-1a6fdccfb891-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">JUBA, APRIL 22, 2026 &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has signed into law the Treaty Establishing the East African Community Act 2026, marking a key milestone in South Sudan&rsquo;s full accession to the East African Community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The signing was witnessed by the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Rt. Hon. Joseph Ngere Paciko; the Speaker of the Council of States, Rt. Hon Daniel Akot Akot; and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Planning, Hon. Rev. Michael Ayuen Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In law, a bill passed by the National Legislature only becomes law after Presidential assent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&lsquo;The purpose of this Act is to domesticate the Treaty establishing the East African Community and its protocols into the national laws of the Republic of South Sudan.&rsquo; It gives full legal effect to South Sudan&rsquo;s obligations under the Treaty, making it an integral part of the country&rsquo;s legal framework, in line with Chapter 1, Article 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This step confirms that South Sudan has fulfilled the legal requirements of accession, including commitments under the customs union framework.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, APRIL 22, 2026 &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has signed into law the Treaty Establishing the East African Community Act 2026, marking a key milestone in South&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}