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State seeks out-of-court deal with governors over sale of sugar millers

Star sugar on sale at Ukwala supermarket in Kisumu. Kenya has been unable to prepare its local sugar industry to compete against the sweetener from Comesa markets. [Photo: Collins Oduor/Standard]

The Government wants to negotiate with governors from the sugar belt to unlock a stalemate over the privatisation of millers. This is after Kenya received an extension of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) sugar safeguards.

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