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The East African Monday April 12 2021 Security officers at Namanga town, at the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Several trucks are stuck on both sides of the border. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary A spot check at the crossing last Wednesday found stranded maize trucks on the Tanzanian side, while more than 20 on the Kenyan side had not been cleared. Advertisement Kenyan authorities remain tight-lipped a month after banning Tanzanian and Ugandan maize imports into the country. This past week, sources at the Namanga border crossing say Tanzania has blocked all transit trucks from entering the country from the Kenyan side. A spot check at the crossing on Wednesday found stranded maize trucks on the Tanzanian side, while more than 20 trucks on the Kenyan side had not been cleared to cross into Tanzania. ....
Daily Monitor Tuesday March 16 2021 On March 5, the Kenyan Government issued a ban on the importation of maize from Uganda. The decision, according to the head of Kenyan Agriculture and Food Authority, stemmed from their findings on the safety of food imports to Kenya that revealed maize from Uganda and Tanzania contains substances that cause cancer. This decision has attracted an unprecedented response from some Ugandan legislators, who proposed a ban on agricultural imports from Kenya in retaliation. Whereas the need to protect Ugandan traders involved in maize export is understandable, our legislators should become more proactive to deal with the root cause of the problem and save us from future troubles. ....
The East African Monday March 15 2021 Trucks with imported maize from Tanzania waiting to offload outside Mombasa Maize Millers in Mombasa in this picture take in August 2019. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Summary Kenya has denied banning maize imports from Uganda and Tanzania over aflatoxin as the East African Community termed the decision not procedural. The Agriculture and Food Authority in a letter dated March 5 said maize from the two countries have revealed high levels of mycotoxins “that are consistently beyond safety limits of 10 parts be billion” sparking off a fresh trade war between the three founding EAC partner states. But while Kenya’s ministries of the East African Community and Trade remained tight-lipped, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya appeared to contradict the AFA letter when he denied banning maize imports. ....
The East African Monday March 08 2021 The drivers of cargo trucks from Tanzania, ferrying tonnes of maize into Kenya, await offloading outside the Mombasa Maize Millers Factory in this photo taken on September 13, 2020. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG Summary The Kenyan authority noted that over the years, acute and chronic aflatoxin-related illness cases have been recorded, with some resulting in deaths. Advertisement Dar es Salaam, The Tanzanian government on Saturday said it hasn’t received official communication from Kenya on the decision to ban maize imports. This followed an internal letter by Kenya’s Agriculture and Food Authority, communicating the decision to the commissioner of customs at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). ....
THE STANDARD By Dominic Omondi | March 7th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Trucks queue to deliver maize at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) Eldoret depot. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard] Kenya has set the stage for a war with its main trading partners after it banned importation of maize from Uganda and Tanzania. The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) said on Friday that surveillance and tests they had done on maize from the two countries had shown that most of it was infected with aflatoxin. However, East African Community (EAC) Director-General for Customs and Trade Kenneth Bagamuhunda described Nairobi’s move as “unilateral.” ....