Ruto calls emergency EAC Summit over $89m shortfall
The President of Kenya and Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) William Samoei Ruto speaks during a meeting of the East African Community (EAC)–Southern African Development Community (SADC) Co-Chairs’ with the panel of facilitators for the DRC peace process at State House in Nairobi on August 1, 2025.
Kenya’s President William Ruto has called for an emergency summit of Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC) to attempt to deal with mounting financial crisis at the regional bloc.
The March 7 event, due in Arusha, Tanzania will be the first formal meeting by the EAC’s topmost organ in over a year where leaders will deliberate on a new funding formula and measures to put logic to expenditure.
