“Kenya undecided on mining coal in Kitui's Mui Basin”, 02 September 2020

Kenya is at crossroads over whether to mine 400 million tons of coal in the Mui Basin in Kitui county.

Environment ministry official Thomas Lelekoitien said on Tuesday the issue and project had been shrouded in politics and blocked by opposition since concessions were awarded to a Chinese firm in 2013. The climate change official said it was not decided whether the project would proceed[.]... [O]pposition has slowed down that project despite the availability of technologies that could assure clean processing of the product. The concession to mine coal in Blocks C and D of the Mui Coal Basin was awarded to the Fenxi Mining Industry of China in December 2013. No work has begun.

Coal mining concessions in Bocks A and B have also been put on hold, even after the tender was advertised. …