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Nairobi's fuel dispensers replace charcoal, kerosene with biofuel

The price of charcoal and gas hike is becoming a nightmare for business and for domestic use. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

In Kenya's capital Nairobi, restaurant owner Miriam Kamau lifts a steaming ladle of food from a stove burning locally produced ethanol - a fuel made from the byproducts of sugar production.

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