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How Kenya’s major transport corridor lost shine to Tanzania

Long queues of trucks at Malaba border. Covid-19 appears to have eroded the gains made since 2014 in easing cross-border trade. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

The time taken by truckers to move cargo from Mombasa to the border towns of Busia and Malaba for re-export to Uganda and other neighbouring countries more than doubled following the outbreak of Covid-19.

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