By Mugira Fredrick, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
KAMPALA, 23 October 2008: Several heads of state from Central, East and Southern Africa have been meeting in Kampala, Uganda. The summit has since Saturday been discussing economic and trade liberalization, trading arrangements among the regional blocks and infrastructural development among others.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni lamented that disunity was the biggest disease failing development efforts in Africa. He stressed that uniting economically would help liberate Africa economically.
Museveni observed that lack of economic integration coupled with slave trade that lasted over 300 years, European colonialism, neo-colonialism, among others, are factors that greatly contributed to the marginalization of the continent.
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