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On integration drive, EAC bloc is badly off

The EAC integration dream, our behaviour - individually and collectively as countries - speaks volumes. [iStockphoto]

A week after President William Ruto tore into foreign powers for allegedly maltreating African leaders, Ugandan strongman Yoweri Museveni has fired a salvo observers say could test Kenya's ties with its pet neighbour.

Through an Executive Order No 3 of 2023 released on Wednesday, Museveni asked Kenya to extradite an unknown number of herders said to have crossed the border and shot dead five Ugandans, among them geologists.

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