Another emergency fuel cargo imported as airlines brace for higher fuel costs

A KQ Boeing Dreamliner at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.[ Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kenya has imported another emergency fuel cargo to avert a possible jet fuel shortage during the final week of August, according to documents from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum.

The cargo was imported outside the Government-to-Government (G-to-G) arrangement, similar to the super petrol shipment brought into the country in late March that caused a controversy, leading to the arrest and resignation of senior energy sector officials and leaving some importers with significant losses.