Relief for Kenya as Comesa team endorses sugar import safeguard

Workers offload bags of sugar from a ship at the Port of Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG

A key Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) committee has recommended that Kenya be granted a two-year extension to limit on sugar imports from the trade bloc's member States, offering relief to local millers that feared competition from cheap producers.

The Comesa Council of Ministers agreed to Kenya’s application for more time before fully opening up its market to imports after more than a decade of being allowed to protect local sugar farmers.

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