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Reprieve for Kenya as Comesa extends sugar safeguards for a year

By James Anyanzwa

Local sugar millers have received a major reprieve. This follows Comesa Council of Ministers’ extension of the country’s protection against cheap imports from the regional trading bloc by a year. The ministers, during a meeting in Kinshasa Wednesday, agreed to Kenya’s request for an additional time to put their sugar sector in order.

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