Nairobi, Feb. 25 -- East Africans are still struggling to find cheap options to send money from one country to another within the region, making it one of the greatest barriers to trade and slowing the implementation of the Common Market Protocol.

Latest data from the World Bank shows that some money remittance corridors in the region are among the most expensive in the world, and much higher than the global average, despite efforts to bring down transaction costs to ease trade.

Scholars and business leaders say this has remained one of the biggest impediments to the full realisation of the common market pillar of East Africa Community (EAC) integration, in turn, delaying other pillars of the union.

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