World Socialist Web Site

How giant tea companies exploit Kenyan plantation workers

This writer visited Kenyan tea estates earlier this year and witnessed first-hand the ruthless regime maintained by multinational companies. Sri Lankan and Indian plantation companies often cite Kenya ...
World Socialist Web Site

A visit to the workers’ quarters at a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya

WSWS correspondents visited the workers’ quarters in the Unilever-owned tea plantation in Kericho County in Kenya. Unilever’s estate, the largest in Kenya, reportedly covers 8,700 hectares. It employs ...
The Nation

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnson’s ...
Business Daily Africa

Why Kenya must match tea sector reforms with financial innovation

The Kenyan tea sector is a vital component of the economy, contributing significantly to foreign exchange earnings, agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), and employment. It is a major source of ...
U.S. News & World Report

Kenya Land Standoff Sends Warning to Foreign-Owned Tea Estates

NANDI HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) - A dispute between a British-owned tea plantation and a local community in western Kenya has come to the boil in what could be a sign of turbulent times ahead for tea ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Plantations still have a place in Kenya

wwMurang’a residents want a piece of Kakuzi plantation. Rift Valley residents want a piece of tea plantations and Laikipia residents want some ranches. Taita residents want a piece of expansive ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

As climate change threatens Kenyan tea, millions of workers seen at risk

FILE PHOTO: A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi, November 5, 2014. NAIROBI, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate ...
Digital Journal

Kenya launches probe into sex abuse claims at UK tea firms

Workers at a tea plantation in Kenya's Kericho area - Copyright AFP/File TONY KARUMBA Workers at a tea plantation in Kenya's Kericho area - Copyright AFP/File TONY ...
Reuters

In Kenya, speciality tea finds favour with health conscious consumers

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Bella Gwada picks purple-tipped tea leaves at a farm in central Kenya early on a Saturday morning before moving to process, brew and taste the produce which had been harvested ...
The Nation

Blood on the Tea Leaves: Kenyan Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever

Tea pluckers say the household-goods giant failed to protect them from brutal and foreseeable attacks. At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnson’s home. They forced her ...
Reuters

Kenya land standoff sends warning to foreign-owned tea estates

British colonists seized lands inhabited by local communities Avenues for redress limited by immunities, statutes of limitations Dispute in Nandi pits local farmers against British-owned estate NANDI ...