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<p>Manufacturing value chains are highly vulnerable to global supply-chain disruptions and external shocks. In the wake of the pandemic, Kenyan manufacturers are facing liquidity challenges, reduced demand, depressed production capacity, cash flow constraints, logistics challenges to name just a few. Mucai Kunyiha, Chairman of Kenya Association of Manufacturers joins  CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Kenyan manufacturers in uproar over new taxes

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<p>In Kenya has been implementing increasingly stringent rules against use of plastics to protect the environment. However, manufacturers in the country are in support of recycling plastics in an effort to avoid ban on the use of the material for packaging consumer goods. Mucai Kunyiha, Chairman of Kenya Association of Manufacturers joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


How Kenyans can turn waste management challenges into business opportunities

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<p>A study has shown that COVID-19 has caused cash flow constraints for an estimated 79 per cent of manufacturers in Kenya resulting in reduction of casual labourers by 40 per cent and 17 per cent of the permanent workers. Job Wanjohi, Head of Policy at Kenya Association of Manufacturers joined CNBC Africa for more.</p>


The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on Kenyan manufacturing

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<p>Kenya Association of Manufacturers will, from tomorrow, be hosting a 5-day Manufacturing Summit and Expo dubbed #Changamkafest2019 that is happening for the 3rd time. Job Wanjohi, Head of Policy at Kenya Association of Manufacturers joins CNBC Africa to discuss this and driving competitiveness for local manufacturers as well as closing the manufacturing gap through the Big 4 Agenda.</p>


KAM seek to strengthen SMEs in manufacturing

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<p>Rwanda Standard Board received $1 million funding from TradeMark East Africa in support of projects that will enhance food safety and trade. CNBC Africa’s Zwena Bachoo filed this report.</p>


Rwanda Standard Board secures $1 mn to enhance food safety, trade

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<p>The business community in Kenya has raised concerns about the current political environment in Kenya, saying it could undermine economic prosperity of the country.</p>


Kenyan business express concern over political tension

<p>NAIROBI (Reuters) &#8211; Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years or fines of $40,000 from Monday, as the world’s toughest law aimed at reducing plastic pollution came into effect.</p>
<p>The East African nation joins more than 40 other countries that have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.</p>
<p>Many bags drift into the ocean, strangling turtles, suffocating seabirds and filling the stomachs of dolphins and whales with waste until they die of starvation.</p>
<p>“If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish,” said Habib El-Habr, an expert on marine litter working with the U.N. Environment Programme in Kenya.</p>
<p>Plastic bags, which El-Habr says take between 500 to 1,000 years to break down, also enter the human food chain through fish and other animals. In Nairobi’s slaughterhouses, some cows destined for human consumption had 20 bags removed from their stomachs.</p>
<p>“This is something we didn’t get ten years ago but now its almost on a daily basis,” said county vet Mbuthi Kinyanjui as he watched men in bloodied white uniforms scoop sodden plastic bags from the stomachs of cow carcases.</p>
<p>Kenya’s law allows police to go after anyone even carrying a plastic bag. But Judy Wakhungu, Kenya’s environment minister, said enforcement would initially be directed at manufacturers and suppliers.</p>
<p>“Ordinary wananchi will not be harmed,” she told Reuters, using a Kiswahili word for “common man”.</p>
<p>It took Kenya three attempts over ten years to finally pass the ban, and not everyone is a fan.</p>
<p>Samuel Matonda, spokesman for the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, said it would cost 60,000 jobs and force 176 manufacturers to close. Kenya is a major exporter of plastic bags to the region.</p>
<p>&#8220;The knock-on effects will be very severe,&#8221; Matonda said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will even affect the women who sell vegetables in the market &#8211; how will their customers carry their shopping home?&#8221;</p>
<p>Big Kenyan supermarket chains like France&#8217;s Carrefour and Nakumatt have already started offering customers cloth bags as alternatives.</p>
<p>Written by Katharine Houreld and John Ndiso</p>
<p>Editing by Robin Pomeroy</p>


Kenya has just imposed the world’s toughest law against plastic bags

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<p>The business community in Kenya is actively engaging candidates for various political positions with the aim of guiding the incoming generation of politicians after the August 8th election.</p>


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Kenyan manufacturers in uproar over new taxes

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The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on Kenyan manufacturing

KAM seek to strengthen SMEs in manufacturing

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Kenyan business express concern over political tension

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