The fresh political upheaval in Afghanistan threatens to wipe out Kenya’s trade with the Asian nation after nearly a decade of slump due to insurgency by the extremist Taliban.
Kenya’s exports to Afghanistan have been tumbling from highs of about Sh14 billion in 2012 to Sh3.6 billion last year, mainly on uncertainty after the US and Western allies gradually ceded control of the country’s security systems to the governments of Afghanistan’s two post-Taliban presidents, Hamid Karzai, and Ashraf Ghani.
