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Why EAC's vision of full economic integration remains a pipe dream

By Muinde Patrick | 3h ago

President William Ruto and his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu during the funeral service of the late President Hage Geingob held at Independence Stadium in Windhoek, Namibia. [PCS]

Has the clock of time for the East Africa Community (EAC) rolled back to 1977? This is the year when the marriage among the then three member states Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania became irretrievably broken, leading to the dissolution of EAC I.

The factors that led to the collapse of EAC I have been well documented in articles published by the United National Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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