At the Environment and Land Court in Nairobi on 13 November, justices began hearing a landmark lawsuit seeking to ban multinational manufacturers and local distributors from placing toxic pesticides, already banned in Europe, on the Kenyan market (Dispatches 7/3/23). The suit targets glyphosate, Paraquat, Imidacloprid, Clothianidin, Fipronil, chlorpyrifos, thiacloprid, thiamethoxam, fenitrothion and dinotefuran, according to court papers, with Monsanto Kenya, Bayer East Africa, Twiga Chemical Industries, Syngenta Agrochemicals, and BASF East Africa all named.
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