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How animals have ‘conspired’ to keep prices of unga high

NAIROBI: The country’s livestock may be behind the high prices consumers are currently being forced to pay for a packet of unga.

It is as if British novelist George Orwell’s Animal Farm is playing out in real life in Kenya, with cows, goats, sheep, pigs and chicken on the verge of wrestling maize farms from humans.

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