A sour taste creeps into Kenyan tea

Kericho tea farm chaos

Protesters buried in smoke after police fired teargas to disperse them at the Brooke trading centre in Kericho. This week, Dutch multinational Ekaterra Tea Company suspended its operations in Kericho, Kenya’s South Rift region, after militant residents invaded two of its estates and burnt mechanical tea pickers, harvesters and a tractor.

Photo credit: Vitalis Kimutai | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • East Africa seems to be in the early beginnings of militant contestation over natural resources.