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China exports US$19.8m worth of cement to Kenya in first half of 2016
12 September 2016Kenya: China exported cement worth US$19.8m to Kenya in the first half of 2016 compared to US$1.99m in the same period of 2015, according to data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS). Despite this large increase in imports of cement, Chinese contractors working in the country, such as the China Road and Bridges Corporation which are currently building the Mombasa-Nairobi railway, have denied bringing the material into Kenya. They say they have only imported machinery and equipment for the large-scale infrastructure projects that they are working on, according to Business Daily.
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