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Security cooperation in regional integration is a global phenomenon today as states work together in a bid to protect their territories, sovereignty and interests from imminent threats. Regional integration has allowed member states of regional blocs like the European Union to cooperate in security matters within their jurisdiction, through bodies such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe In Africa, the African Union (AU) established sub-regional standby forces in West, East, Southern and Central Africa for the same reasons. Security cooperation in regional integration is imperative for the East African Community (EAC) to achieve its vision of becoming a political federation through deepening and widening political, social, cultural and economic integration. This goal is, however, threatened by the numerous security challenges in the sub-region, which this article interrogates. It seeks to underscore the centrality of security cooperation in regional blocs with the view to contributing to the discourse on regional integration in Africa. It also seeks to provoke the EAC policy makers to embrace a regional approach to security cooperation through building synergies in security matters within its jurisdiction to promote and sustain regional integration agenda, hence the scholarly and policy raison d'etre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]