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Kenya: Court dismisses challenge over Genetically modified crops | Africanews

Activists and agricultural pressure groups had denounced the authorities' 2022 decision, and called for the ban to be "reinstated". Kenya is experiencing a drought of unprecedented intensity for 40 years.

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