South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called an EAC leaders' summit for 15 April that is set to formally end Mathuki's three-year tenure and replace him with United Nations official Caroline Mwende Mueke (Dispatches 20/3/24 Quiet diplomacy doesn't work for sacked official)...

A letter to Deng Alor Kuol the South Sudanese chair of the EAC's Council of Ministers from Kenya's cabinet secretary Peninah Malonza replacing Mathuki with Caroline Mueke dated 15 March states that Mathuki 'is now to serve the Republic in a different capacity'...

Mathuki will be replaced by Caroline Mueke a former UN staffer...