The blockade of Strait of Hormuz has redrawn Kenya’s fuel supply map after Saudi Arabia overtook the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the country’s largest source of petroleum imports with the help of pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi Arabia unlike the UAE has managed to ship huge volumes of oil using pipelines without crossing the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran shut following the war.
Kenya imported Sh99.78 billion worth of goods from Saudi Arabia between March and May, more than double the Sh42.10 billion shipped from…