Mideast war leaves 6,000 tonnes of tea stuck at Kenya port

The East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) manages auctions at the port city, which serves as a global marketplace where hundreds of thousands of tonnes of tea from the region are sold every year. Around 65 percent of the east African tea market has been affected by the war that began on February 28 when the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, EATTA director George Omuga said. As a result, "six to eight million kilos" are stuck in Mombasa, he told AFP. "So that's an average...