Broke EAC grapples with financial and staffing crisis
With $58m budget hole, EAC may be unable to pay salaries, let alone hiring some 150 needed staff. Its projects have also stalled due to the cash crunch.
The Council of Ministers of the East African Community (EAC) met in Arusha this week, amid a looming crisis blamed on an acute shortage of money for programmes and staff salaries, which are threatening to ground operations at the secretariat.
The Council, while announcing the latest Arusha retreat, admitted that the cash crunch was one of the top agendas. Another one was security.
