Rwanda now biggest importer of Uganda sugar in EAC

Rwanda depends on imported sugar to plug sugar deficits and domestic prices. Shutterstock

Rwanda has overtaken Kenya as Uganda’s biggest sugar export market in the East African Community.

In 2022, Uganda exported at least 1.7 MT, but the sugar full year ended December 31, 2023, and the latest sugar export data from Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), show Rwanda ordered over 35.3 per cent or 39.3 MT out of the 111.1 MT Uganda sugar millers exported to the EAC Common Market in the nine months this year.