East African Community

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/east-african-community

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding year of first iteration?1967
2. What is the year of revival?2000
3. Which countries are part of the EAC?The EAC includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania.
4. When was the EAC revived after its pause?It was revived on July 7, 2000, after being inactive for more than twenty years.

Intergovernmental Organisation: An entity composed of sovereign states, established by treaty or other instrument governed by international law.
Regional Economic Integration: The process by which countries in a geographic region cooperate to reduce or remove barriers to trade and investment.
East African Federation: A proposed future political union of the current EAC member states into a single sovereign nation.
Monetary Union: A type of trade bloc where two or more countries share the same currency and have a common monetary policy.