Sam Mayanja engaged by the World Bank to review the Northern Corridor Organisation

Our founding and senior partner, Sam Mayanja, was appointed by the World Bank in the capacity of Transport Legal Expert to carry out a review of the Northern Corridor Organisation.  The Northern Corridor is the multimodal transport corridor linking the Kenyan maritime port of Mombasa to the hinterland countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan. Intra-state trade and overseas transit trade of these countries use the infrastructure and services linked to this corridor. In order to streamline operations along the corridor, and to avoid the use of a multiplicity of bilateral agreements, the corridor hinterland countries together with Kenya, the coastal state, found it prudent to conclude a comprehensive multilateral agreement.  This agreement which was first concluded on 19th February 1985 was reviewed 10 years later on 15th November 1996.

His task as Legal expert was to join a World Bank transport Economist Consultant Mr. Godfrey M. Onyango and review the entire agreement along with its 12 protocols to update it to suit the current world environment. The concerned countries will have to ratify the amended draft Agreement so as to domesticate it in their law.

Download a Copy of the Agreement here.

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