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“East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector”

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East Africa's hotly contested coffee sector

An important source of foreign currency, coffee exports are the subject of a power struggle between multinational trading companies and the region's coffee-producing countries, chief among which are Ethiopia and Kenya. While governments try to impose reforms designed to favour local producers and intermediaries, international traders, notably German and Swiss, seek to maintain their dominant position. Fuelling the stand-off are new European Union directives on traceability and the social and environmental impact of agricultural products, which will have major repercussions across the entire sector. [...]

Kenya's President William Ruto in Nairobi on 1 November 2024. © Simon Maina/AFP

The ousting last month of his deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, threatened the Kenyan president's standing in the centre of the country. Now he wants to show he's listening to growers of a leading export earner irked by recent sector reforms. [...]

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Graft watchdog homes in on ousted deputy president's coffee aide

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A news stand with newspapers carrying headlines on the impeachment of Rigathi Gachagua in Nairobi on 9 October 2024.

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Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

The impeachment of Kenyan deputy president Rigathi Gachagua gives coffee industry players the opportunity to revisit a key reform of his mandate. The initial reforms adopted have not delivered the expected results for producers.

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Coffee beans harvest in Nandi province, Kenya on 28 August 2023.

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Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

Political power struggles are plaguing Kenya's coffee sector, which is struggling to recover despite reforms carried out by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. The industry's loss of momentum in its stronghold in the centre of the country could play into the hands of the western counties.

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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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Rigathi Gachagua's coffee reforms rile multinationals

The deputy president, who has embarked on an ambitious reform of the coffee industry, has set his sights on major traders. But with sales on the Nairobi Coffee Exchange plummeting, the main players targeted have no intention of rolling over.

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William Ruto schemes to win back Mount Kenya's wavering coffee growers

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Graft watchdog homes in on ousted deputy president's coffee aide

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Coffee reforms may be reviewed in wake of deputy president's dismissal

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Ruto government overhaul reshuffles coffee sector deck

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

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