Peter O'Reilly, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Liverpool John Moores University Chris Vaughan, Senior Lecturer in African History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University THE outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed further fault lines in the workings of the East African Community (EAC), often perceived as a beacon of regional integration on the continent. There have been some gestures of regional solidarity. For example, the Secretariat dispatched mobile testing laboratories across the region. But the overall response of the partner states – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda – has been fragmented. The EAC was re-established in…