Saturday’s nod giving Kenya's sugar industry an extension of importation safeguards by the regional trading bloc for two more years has shifted the spotlight to stalled reforms in the sector, which have condemned farmers to abject poverty.
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) allowed Kenya to continue enjoying protection against the influx of imports from the Comesa region after the bloc’s council of ministers passed a resolution accepting its bid to extend sugar safeguards for two more years up to February 2021 from the previous date of February 2019.
