East Africa Metals Inc. announced that provide the following updates on the company's activities: Exploration and Drill Program, at the Harvest Project, additional diamond drilling has been conducted at the VTEM09, Mayshehagne and Lihamat prospects in the last quarter of 2016, with analyses anticipated in the first quarter of 2017. This drilling was primarily to follow up on previous drilling success: at VTEM09, 10.21m at the rate of 3.97 g/t Au, 3.16% Cu, 87 g/t Ag, 3.82% Zn, at Mayshehagne, 20.70m at the rate of 1.03 g/t Au, 5.00% Cu, 31 g/t Ag, 8.20% Zn, at Lihamat, 4m at the rate of 111.6 g/t Au. Work in 2017 will focus primarily on continued resource delineation drilling at Mato Bula and Da Tambuk, and will include testing gold surface exploration targets not yet drill tested on the Adyabo Project. Staged geophysical I.P. surveying will be conducted along the Mato Bula Trend, aimed at identifying additional exploration drill targets at depth, in proximity to the currently identified resources. Mine Permit Application; The mining permitting application for East Africa's 70% owned Terakimti Oxide Gold Project is advancing through the government approval process and making good progress. East Africa has been informed that the Ethiopian Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas (the "Ministry") has completed their review of the mine permit application and has provided comments to the Company. The Company has scheduled a meeting with the Ministry on January 17, 2017, to discuss the Company's responses in detail, and any other questions the Ministry may have regarding the Terakimti mining permitting application. The permitting application is specifically focused on the Terakimti Oxide Gold Project contained within the Harvest Project. Terakimti Oxide Gold Project profile: Mineral resource: 1,125,000 tonnes grading 3.2 grams per tonne gold and 24.0 grams per tonne silver containing 107,000 ounces of gold and 812,000 ounces of silver; Simulated heap-leach recoveries: 75.3% gold and 39.7% silver; Mining method: conventional open pit; Processing: heap leaching to produce gold-silver dore.