South Sudan is taking the mantle of the East African Community amid pressure to show more integration credentials by giving more attention to programmes of the bloc.
And President Salva Kiir, who is due to become the new chair of the EAC Summit – replacing Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye, whose one-year tenure came to an end mid this year – could either use the position to prove doubters wrong or expose the soft underbelly of Juba on regional scale.
