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Kenya: Ship With Sugar Yet to Offload 10 Months On
Nation, 3 July 2018
A ship carrying 40,000 tonnes of sugar is yet offload, 10 months after it docked at the Port of Mombasa. Read more »
40,000 Tonnes of Sugar Stuck at Mombasa Port for 10 Months
The details of the ship that has been docked since August 2017 emerged following revelations that a ship bringing 10,000 tonnes of Morocco fertiliser to Mombasa fled to the high seas to avoid the cargo being tested before it was offloaded. This comes in the midst of sugar smuggling scandals that have caught the country by storm.
Trucks within the port of Mombasa waiting to be loaded with imported sugar (file photo).
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Kenya: Sugar Importer Had Been Blacklisted, MPs Told
Nation, 3 July 2018
One of the companies that imported sugar in bulk from Brazil last year had in the past been blacklisted by Parliament. Read more »
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East Africa: Sugar Smuggling Syndicate Revealed
Nation, 1 July 2018
The sugar wars that are threatening to unravel the Jubilee ruling coalition have focused mostly on the product that is imported by scores of licensed traders. Read more »
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Kenya: Sugar Imports Drop 50pc in Five Months
Nation, 1 July 2018
Sugar imports in the five months to May dropped 50 per cent compared with the similar period last year as traders shied away from shipping in the commodity due to a market glut. Read more »
InFocus
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In Nyanza, retailers have pushed up the cost of Sony Sugar brands due to an increase in demand as most consumers avoid brands from factories linked to the controversial importation ... Read more »
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"The sugar industry is in Intensive Care Unit and fraudsters are switching off the oxygen. Sugar industries in Western Kenya have collapsed and millions of livelihoods destroyed," ... Read more »
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The Kenyan government has destroyed 400 tones of contraband sugar valued at U.S.$279,000 by dumping it into the Indian Ocean. Industrialisation secretary Adan Mohamed has warned ... Read more »
