Coca-Cola has often been entangled with key political moments in Africa since its arrival in the early 1900s.
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Coca-Cola has made ambitions climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
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