The East African Community (EAC) took its first major step toward integration in 2005, forming a customs union that allows for free trade within the community and common tariffs on external trade ...

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Analysis - The East African countries of Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya have tried to resuscitate the East African Community (EAC) but have met mounting hurdles. Paul Ohia examines how far they can go ...

With seven nations considering unification, the East African Federation could become one of Africa’s most powerful economies—and its largest country. Hundreds of electric car charging stations ...

Although the plan of creating an East African federation is not new, countries in the region have not been doing enough to make it possible. The idea, which originated in the 1960s, involved the ...

ON June 30, Prof. Mahmood Mamdani made a keynote address at the East African Legislative assembly Symposium in Arusha, Tanzania. Below is a slightly edited version of his address on the topic: â ...

The creation of the East African Federation has been in the making since the early 1960s, and initially involved Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT.

Opinion - IT is necessary to understand and appreciate that the peoples of this region have so many things that bring us together and form a basis for the formation of a political federation.