For the EASF, the immediate challenge is turning political commitments into practical capacity. Its leadership wants the force to move beyond being a regional arrangement on paper and become a properly funded, politically supported and operationally ready mechanism capable of responding when crises emerge.
The proposal has sparked concern among Kampala property owners, who fear that moving government offices could leave commercial buildings without tenants and weaken the city’s economy.
There is significant concern regarding the growing volume and sophistication of cybercrime attacks, ranging from multi-level marketing scams to industrial-scale credit card fraud, which various victims from African countries have fallen prey to.