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East African Community (EAC) member States are moving towards the tail end of reviewing fees, levies and charges imposed by members on essential goods and services in the transport and agriculture sector, which have frequently sparked trade wars and choked intra-regional trade in the eight-member economic bloc.

About 400 people have lost their lives in East Africa and tens of thousands have been uprooted from their homes in recent weeks as torrential rains triggered flooding and landslides engulfed houses, roads and bridges