{"id":198038,"date":"2025-05-14T00:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-illicit-brew-accounts-for-60pc-of-all-alcohol-sold-euromonitor-study\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:26:37","slug":"kenya-illicit-brew-accounts-for-60pc-of-all-alcohol-sold-euromonitor-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-illicit-brew-accounts-for-60pc-of-all-alcohol-sold-euromonitor-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Illicit Brew Accounts for 60pc of All Alcohol Sold &#8211; Euromonitor Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Illicit alcohol now accounts for 60 per cent of all alcohol sold, and illegal alcohol sold in Kenya has increased by 27 per cent since 2022, according to a study by Euromonitor International.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The illicit alcohol market continues to grow in both volume and value and growth in the illicit market has exceeded that in the legal market over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The study commissioned by the Alcoholic Beverages Association of Kenya (ABAK) established that the government is losing Sh120&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Illicit alcohol now accounts for 60 per cent of all alcohol sold, and illegal alcohol sold in Kenya has increased by 27 per cent since 2022, according to a study by Euromonitor International. The illicit alcohol market continues to grow in both volume and value and growth in the illicit market has exceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[51343,7516,258,256,8656,39411,51344,9926,4688,430,257,6929,254,6056],"class_list":["post-198038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-60pc","tag-accounts","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alcohol","tag-brew","tag-euromonitor","tag-illicit","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-sold","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}