Sudan dips its purchase of Kenyan tea as strife chokes Horn of Africa

Agriculture CS Mutahi Kagwe with KTDA chairman Chege Kirundi (left) and TBK chairman Ndung’u Gathinji at the EATTA in Mombasa on March 13, 2025.

Photo credit: Wachira Mwangi | Nation Media Group

Kenya’s tea exports to Sudan have diminished further as conflict rages in the Horn of African country. And as it is, that war is reflecting heavily on Kenya’s sales at the Mombasa Tea Auction.

On Thursday, Sudan’s military government said it will no longer allow Kenyan tea, coffee and other products onto its territory, a protest against Nairobi’s hosting of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese army since 2023.