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Government changes tack on controversial land reform

National Assembly majority leader Kimani Ichung'wah was persuaded by a number of officials from central Kenya to withdraw, on 9 April, his proposed Land Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023.

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World Bank lends debt-laden Kenya Power $400m

The loan is intended to help the electricity distributor pay off its debts, but it comes with conditions attached.

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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.

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

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Ruto refuses to cancel coffee growers' debts

The coffee sector has struggled to find funding since recent reforms sidelined multinational traders. Meanwhile, the government is having a hard time selling its own proposals.

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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.

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

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.

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Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.

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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.

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

Kenya
Deputy President Gachagua single-handedly steers ambitious coffee reform

Rigathi Gachagua, who has been tasked with revitalising Kenya's coffee industry, has dismissed a number of experts and officials in the sector. He is also using his open war on multinational trading companies to try to consolidate his political base.

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Rigathi Gachagua (left) and William Ruto, 30 June 2022.

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Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

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Nairobi risks falling foul of EU deforestation rules

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Ruto refuses to cancel coffee growers' debts

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Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

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

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Kenya coffee reforms pummel multinationals, boost local firms

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Kenya Nairobi risks falling foul of EU deforestation rules

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Ethiopia Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

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Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

DRC
Dan Gertler's billions of dollars in royalties at heart of huge legal battle

Kenya
Nairobi risks falling foul of EU deforestation rules

Kenya
Government changes tack on controversial land reform

Kenya
World Bank lends debt-laden Kenya Power $400m

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

Kenya
Ruto refuses to cancel coffee growers' debts

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa seeks to soften EU stance on deforestation

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

Kenya
Kenya coffee reforms pummel multinationals, boost local firms

Kenya
Deputy President Gachagua single-handedly steers ambitious coffee reform