Emblem of the East African Community ""Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki"" which translates as 'East African Community'. The colours used on the emblem are the same as those used on the flag of the East African Community which also features the emblem in its centre. The first version of the emblem was adopted in 2003 by the "Community Emblem Act, 2003" when the Community only consisted of three members: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. In 2007 the Community expanded to include Burundi and Rwanda. In 2008 to take into account this expansion of membership the "Community Emblems (Amendment) Act, 2008" was passed, which modified the emblem to include
East African cheetah first, the East and Southern African cheetahs were thought to be identical as the genetic distance between the two subspecies is low. In the 1990s, it appeared from a DNA research that the East African cheetah is a separate subspecies differing from the Southern African cheetah. In early 2011, results of phylogeographic genetic analysis on cheetah subspecies revealed more about the distinctiveness and significant differences between cheetah subspecies, revealing the connection between the East and Southern African populations. The mitochondrial DNA data shows that the East African cheetah had no common haplotype with the Southern African cheetah, although one haplotype