East Africa: Gradual Integration Is Right Way Forward

opinion

ACCORDING to the Treaty of the revived East African Community (EAC), monetary union is a stage just a heartbeat away from achieving "ultimately political federation" of the region.

The preceding steps are a Customs Union and Common Market, a phase member states are still fine tuning, two years after they came together.

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