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With No End in Sight, Livelihoods in Kenya Now at Risk Due to COVID-19 Trade Crisis

by Eric Olander
File photo of the Port of Mombasa in Kenya. AFP.

With China’s factories and ports still struggling to get back up to speed, the massive disruptions to the global supply chain are being felt disproportionately among small-to-medium-sized enterprises in countries like Kenya.

Inventories are running so low now in a rapidly growing number of Kenyan businesses that they’ll either have to find other suppliers, which won’t be easy or go out of business.

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