We are told that Uganda wants to use the eight member states of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development to establish the United States of Africa. IGAD is meeting in Kampala at Speke Resort Hotel at a place called Munyonyo.

The member states of IGAD are Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan and Uganda. IGAD is one of the African economic blocks which are working with other economic blocks in Africa to ensure that they form a single block for the African region by 2028 in accordance with the 1991 Abuja Treaty.

A source told us that Uganda and other members of IGAD want to use the African block was its fully established into the United States of Africa with headquarters in Kampala, East Africa. Currently IGAD is discussing the gradual removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers affecting Africans and the benefits of a free trade area.