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Vol 60 No 16

Published 9th August 2019


Tanzania

Cashew crisis grinds on

The President’s decision to act first and reflect later is proving costly for what should be the country’s most valuable export crop

Last November, President John Pombe Magufuli took cashew marketing out of the hands of private traders, who refused to pay the price he demanded for raw cashew and brought in the army. Yet the nuts are still largely unsold.

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