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Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa. The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger. Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade. ....
THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS Kenya Tourism Federation National Chairman Mohamed Hersi and Tourism CS Najib Balala. The decision by the Treasury to cut the Ministry of Tourism budget by Sh3.42 billion has sparked uproar with hoteliers saying it would hamper the industry s recovery plans. According to the Supplementary Budget released this week, the Treasury slashed the ministry s spending to Sh9.4 billion from Sh12.8 billion in the previous financial year. Kenya Tourism Federation (KTF) National Chairman Mohamed Hersi termed the move regrettable, saying the ministry should be allocated adequate funds to turn around the sector hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. ....
THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS MOMBASA, KENYA: Mixed reaction greeted the government’s decision to slash the Sh12.8 billion earlier allocated to the Tourism Ministry. Out of the earlier allocation, Sh3.42 billion has been slashed leaving the tourism budget with Sh9.4 billion. Kenya Tourism Federation (KTF) National chairman, Mohamed Hersi termed the move as highly regrettable adding that it was expected that due to the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, tourism gets adequate funding to help it recover. The new scenario will now compel Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) to scale down on its marketing operations, Hersi who is also Director of Operations at the Pollmans Tours and Safaris Company said. ....
Serena Beach Hotel Naturalist, Samuel Ndunda, aims at Indian house crows (inset) [Photo: Omondi Onyango] At Serena Beach Hotel and Spa in north Coast, we find Samuel Ndunda, 52, armed with a catapult to scare away birds. Ndunda is among three people employed solely to scare away Indian house crows, a preying bird that wreaks havoc at the Coast. The workers chase the black and grey necked birds that hover around the hotel lawn looking for food. “They are a real nuisance. They grab food from plates. They excrete all over as they fly from one spot to another,” he said. ....