As we drive through political fog, an ‘invisible hand’ is steering integration
EAC member states flags. The current EAC can rightly brag it has lasted twice as long as EAC I, which collapsed in 1977 after 10 years in existence. PHOTO | RWANDA PRESIDENCY
The 20th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State on February 1, 2019, in Arusha, the Tanzania city where the organisation is headquartered, was billed in several media commentaries in the weeks prior as likely to be its funeral.
Another summit on November 30, 2018 flopped, with Burundi boycotting it and President Pierre Nkurunziza accusing Rwanda of being behind efforts to destabilise his country.
