Quick intervention needed to rescue EAC from collapse

The past few months haven’t been rosy for the East African Community scheme. It has been laid bare that indeed the regional bloc applauded for aiming at a political federation, is on the rocks. There has been simmering multi-dimensional tensions. Publicly, three partner states are not in good terms. The environment is not conducive for progress. Fear is rife that if nothing is done as early as now, soon things may get out of hand and East Africans will be disappointed.

A confession by the EAC Secretariat this week that quick intervention is necessary confirms speculations that the bloc is on shaky ground. The EAC Secretariat is the horse whose mouth we have to believe. The tensions between Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda may drive the last nail into the EAC establishment.