East African Federation East African Federation The East African Federation (Swahili: "Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki") is a proposed political union of the six sovereign states of the East African CommunityBurundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Ugandaas a single federated sovereign state. In September 2018 a committee was formed to begin the process of drafting a regional constitution. At , the East African Federation would be the largest country in Africa and 10th-largest in the world. With a population of 178,978,883, it would also be the second most populous nation in Africa (after Nigeria) and eighth in the world. Its population would be
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child AU agenda around these times. They are empowered to receive and examine the country ("state") reports on the measures they have adopted to implement the provisions of the Children's Charter as well as the progress achieved regarding how the rights are being protected. The final protective function of the Committee of Experts is related to the investigations procedure. They are empowered to resort to any appropriate method of investigation in respect of any issue covered in the Children's Charter. As at October 2008, the elected Committee of Experts were (name, country, position): African Committee of Experts on the Rights and