Uganda Foreign Minister Henry Oryem Okello has revealed Kenya signed a deal allowing Uganda sugar imports in the country. The minister further said some Uganda sugar companies have already started exporting Sugar to Kenya.
This is despite continued denial by Kenya’s foreign minister Amina Mohamed that Sugar was in the deal, Oryem said Kenya has given Uganda sugar quarter of a capacity of 97,000 metric tonnes.
The state minister for Foreign affairs told journalists that the meeting between the States signed a protocol that waived off the ban on export of Uganda’s sugar to Kenya that had affected trade in the last two and half years.
Uganda had been locked in trade dispute with Kenya since 2011 when claims emerged that traders from Uganda were simply repacking cheap COMESA sugar for resale in other regional markets. This saw Kenya slap a ban on Uganda sugar in October 2012, which was later replaced by stringent vetting of consignment that takes up to three months before shipment permits are issues.
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