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The East African Business Council (EABC) has called on the East African Community partner states to mutually recognize COVID-19 certificates among on the bloc.

This will play a big role in easing up the traffic snarl up that has been happening at the regional borders since these measures were put in place.

Regional traders have in the past few months been complaining of delays at the border which is negatively affecting their businesses.

EABC has therefore called upon the EAC member states to restock reagents at border posts, to minimize traffic snarl-ups at the Busia and Malaba border posts.

Currently, the traffic of trucks headed to the Busia border starts at Mundika town, 15 kilometers to Busia border while the traffic snarl-up to Malaba one-stop border post is exceeding 30 kilometers.

With about 55 trucks stalled per kilometer, this implies that more than 2,400 trucks destined for Uganda are still …