Ailing sugar firms face flood of cheap imports

Sugarcane transporter driving to Chemelil Milling Factory. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Kenya is yet to put a request to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) for an extension of a sugar import moratorium ahead of expiry of the safeguards.

The country got a 12-month extension last year and that will end in February 2021, sounding the death knell for many local sugar millers that are already in crisis.