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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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