As members default, EAC’s integration dream hits financial reality

Dar es Salaam. The East African Community (EAC), long celebrated as Africa’s most ambitious regional integration project, is facing a credibility crisis that now strikes at its institutional core.

For three consecutive months, Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) and staff claim to have gone unpaid, paralysing operations and reviving painful memories of the Community’s collapse in 1977.