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Cooking oil crisis deepens as Pwani Oil halts production over lack of raw materials

Countries such as Indonesia are said to have suspended exports of palm oil. [iStockphoto]

The cost of cooking oil is expected to further go up after one of the country’s largest edible oil manufacturers temporarily shut its operations due to lack of crucial raw materials.

Pwani Oil announced on Monday that it would stop production, adding to the current crisis in which prices of cooking oil have gone beyond the reach of most Kenyans.

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