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Algeria
Algiers' tough terms for importing coffee

State-owned companies are trying to secure large quantities of coffee amid soaring prices, but international traders are cautious about the strings attached.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 07.04.2025

Kenya
William Ruto schemes to win back Mount Kenya's wavering coffee growers

The ousting last month of his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, threatened the Kenyan president's standing in the centre of the country. Now he wants to show he's listening to growers of a leading export earner irked by recent sector reforms.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 18.11.2024

Kenya's President William Ruto in Nairobi on 1 November 2024.

Kenya
Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

The impeachment of Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua gives coffee industry players the opportunity to revisit a key reform of his mandate. The initial reforms adopted have not delivered the expected results for producers.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 30.10.2024

Coffee beans harvest in Nandi province, Kenya on 28 August 2023.

Kenya
Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

Political power struggles are plaguing Kenya's coffee sector, which is struggling to recover despite reforms carried out by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The industry's loss of momentum in its stronghold in the centre of the country could play into the hands of the western counties.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 26.08.2024

Kenya
Trading giants try to weather coffee reform storm

Several Kenyan counties with mounting stocks of green beans have begun to defy Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's directives by again granting licences to multinationals.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 17.04.2024

Spotlight | Ethiopia, Uganda
Russia looks for new ways to import African coffee

For logistical and financial reasons, Russian coffee importers increasingly have to use intermediaries to get round Western sanctions, while Moscow is trying to open doors in producer countries such as Uganda and Ethiopia.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 13.03.2024

A Moscow branch of Stars Coffee, a chain that has taken over Starbucks outlets

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

The Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority has announced a national plan to prepare the coffee sector for implementation of an EU regulation on deforestation, which threatens to hit African coffee producers hard. Ethiopia is already feeling its effects.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Diplomacy 21.02.2024

Workers carry coffee beans in a warehouse at Mullege Public Limited Company, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 1, 2023.

Kenya
Smallholders up in arms over coffee sector reforms

The abrupt end of milling and marketing by multinational players is disrupting Kenya's coffee sector. Faced with unsold product and growing stocks of green beans, small-scale producers are calling on the government to reverse its policy.

Free access Commodity traders 08.02.2024

Kenya
Gachagua quietly hands coffee reform reins to controversial Kenyatta-era economist

The deputy president's efforts to shake up a pillar of Kenya's economy are directly inspired by the work of Joseph Kieyah, an academic whom ex-president Uhuru Kenyatta tasked with breathing new life into the sector in 2016 and who is now back in the picture.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 01.02.2024

Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.

Kenya
Gachagua coffee reform adviser controversially takes helm of brokerage firm

The Rigathi Gachagua ally Peter Githinji Njuki has not only been appointed CEO of a new coffee brokerage firm but has also obtained a place on a working group focused on the reform of the Nairobi Coffee Exchange.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 04.01.2024

Kenya
Starbucks pours cold water on Gachagua's plans

The US mega-chain has decided not to buy its coffee directly from Kenyan producers. This is unwelcome news for the country's deputy president, who has been tussling with multinational traders and is now trying to smooth things over.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 21.11.2023

Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in Bogota, Colombia, on 12 September 2023.

Kenya
Deputy President Gachagua follows up Brussels trip with visit to Germany

Kenyan agricultural reforms have had a direct impact on certain German multinationals. This will be a key subject during Rigathi Gachagua's trip to Germany as the two countries seek to forge closer diplomatic and commercial relations.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Diplomacy 24.10.2023

Kenya
Rigathi Gachagua's coffee reforms rile multinationals

The deputy president, who has embarked on an ambitious reform of the coffee industry, has set his sights on major traders. But with sales on the Nairobi Coffee Exchange plummeting, the main players targeted have no intention of rolling over.

Subscribers only Commodity traders, Politics 09.10.2023

Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.

Kenya
Kenya coffee reforms pummel multinationals, boost local firms

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's zealous coffee reforms, aimed at giving Kenyan firms a larger share of the spoils, have hit multinationals like Neumann Kaffee Gruppe hard. They are also part of the government's attack on the interests of ex-president Kenyatta.

Subscribers only Commodity traders 18.09.2023

Samples of coffee beans sit at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange on 11 June 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Algeria
Algiers' tough terms for importing coffee

Kenya
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Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

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Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

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Ethiopia
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Kenya
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Kenya
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Kenya
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Algeria Algiers' tough terms for importing coffee

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Kenya Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

Kenya Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

Kenya Trading giants try to weather coffee reform storm

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Ethiopia Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

Kenya Smallholders up in arms over coffee sector reforms

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Kenya Starbucks pours cold water on Gachagua's plans

Kenya Deputy President Gachagua follows up Brussels trip with visit to Germany

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Nigeria
The latest secrets of a $10bn legal scandal between Abuja and London

Cameroon, Central African Republic
Between business and politics, the secrets of Antoine Ndzengue's rise

Algeria
Algiers' tough terms for importing coffee

Kenya
William Ruto schemes to win back Mount Kenya's wavering coffee growers

Kenya
Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

Kenya
Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

Kenya
Trading giants try to weather coffee reform storm

Spotlight | Ethiopia, Uganda
Russia looks for new ways to import African coffee

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

Kenya
Smallholders up in arms over coffee sector reforms

Kenya
Gachagua quietly hands coffee reform reins to controversial Kenyatta-era economist

Kenya
Gachagua coffee reform adviser controversially takes helm of brokerage firm

Kenya
Starbucks pours cold water on Gachagua's plans

Kenya
Deputy President Gachagua follows up Brussels trip with visit to Germany

Kenya
Rigathi Gachagua's coffee reforms rile multinationals

Kenya
Kenya coffee reforms pummel multinationals, boost local firms

Kenya
Gachagua's coffee sector reforms challenge dominance of foreign traders

Kenya
Gachagua seeks to revive glory days of Kenya's coffee sector

Germany, Kenya
President Steinmeier frets over his coffee industry

Ethiopia
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