An attendant stocks maize flour at a Supermarket in Kakamega County, February 23, 2023. Kenyans from different walks of life are purchasing the commodity at between Sh190 and Sh220. [Benjamin Sakwa, ...

Kenyans experienced some relief in September 2025 as the prices of key household commodities, including maize flour, sugar, and cooking gas, shifted. This is according to the latest data from the ...

The Kenyan government has called on citizens to start consuming other food products such as rice and potatoes, and not ugali, or maize meal flour, the national staple food. A prolonged shortage of ...

Two months to the end of the gazetted period to import cheap maize, it has surfaced that traders have only been able to import 48,000tn against the expected 500,000tn. Treasury CS, Prof. Njuguna Ndung ...

NAIROBI, May 16 (Reuters) - Kenya will offer subsidies to maize importers to help lower the cost of maize flour which shot up due to a regional drought, Agriculture Minister Willy Bett said on Tuesday ...

The committee noted that a multi-agency team was put in place to oversee the programme but it did not provide a report on areas of coverage. It added that the maize flour under the programme was not ...

Despite ongoing food shortages, the government of Malawi last month banned the import of unmilled maize from Kenya and Tanzania, citing concerns about the spread of maize lethal necrosis disease, or ...