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East African

adjective

  1. of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of East Africa

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Charles Onyango-Obbo, political commentator on East African matters, agrees that CCM "had long mistaken calm for maturity, but it was only age and arrogance hiding behind a glorious history".

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"Let this moment signal an important shift towards upholding the human rights of East Africans anywhere in East African Community," the organisation wrote on its Instagram page.

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There, he signed up as a private with the East African Scouts, a regiment in the British army that fought in World War Two.

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Djibouti, a tiny East African nation, hosts the only permanent U.S. base on the continent.

The UN has called on the East African nation's security forces to refrain from using unnecessary or disproportionate force.

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