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How to sprint over Dar hurdles

Kenya needs to think outside the box and exploit the potential available in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) since Tanzania seems determined to lock Nairobi out of its market.

This proposition is borne out of the realisation that despite the construction of the Sh20 billion highway linking Arusha and industrial satellite town of Athi River, Kenya’s annual exports to Tanzania have dropped by more than a third since 2014 to Sh29.75 billion.

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