East Africa: Kenya Region's Top Fake Goods Market - Report

5 October 2011

Kenya is the biggest market for counterfeit goods and contraband in East Africa, says a new report.

The counterfeit industry, according to Termites at Work: A report on Transnational Organised Crime and State Erosion in Kenya, is worth Sh70 billion and rivals key foreign exchange earners tourism, tea and coffee.

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