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Sugar milling: The good, the bad and the ugly

By Luke Anami, Peter Atsiaya and Kepher Otieno

In the classic movie, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, the climax is the Mexican standoff in a cemetery, between the three heavily armed main characters. For five long minutes, Blondie (a bounty hunter played by Clint Eastwood), Angel Eyes (a psychopath) and Tuco (a bandit) who have been chasing stolen gold across the harsh Mexican desert, find themselves in an impasse. All three are deadly gunslingers, extremely fast on the draw, but for those five infernally long minutes, none holds the upper hand.

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