An announcement claims that the establishment of Swahili as an official language in Uganda has received cabinet approval.
The cabinet also suggested making Swahili instruction in primary and secondary schools obligatory.
With around 200 million speakers worldwide, Swahili, which has its roots in East Africa, is one of the ten most commonly spoken languages.
From sections of Somalia all the way down to Mozambique and all over the Democratic Republic of the Congo, people speak this language and its dialects.
The East African Community bloc ordered member nations to adopt the language to facilitate communication, according to a tweet from the Ugandan cabinet.
The Cabinet has authorized the execution of a decision by the 21st East African Community (EAC) Summit to make Kiswahili the official language of the region, according to Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of Information Communication Technology and National Guidance, media reported.
English and Kiswahili are currently the official languages of Uganda.
Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the seven nations that make up the EAC.
According to Baryomunsi, the Cabinet also ordered that Kiswahili language instruction in elementary and secondary schools be made mandatory and testable.
