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Spotlight | Kenya, Uganda
Sugar sours Kenya-Uganda relations

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. © Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

Kenya imports most of its sugar from Uganda, but it suspects its neighbour of selling it stock produced in other countries and relabelled to benefit from preferential customs tariffs. [...]

Published on 28/09/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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