NAIROBI－It is early in the morning and Kenyan Cliff Nyongesa is getting ready to open his maize milling shop in Nairobi's Kawangware suburb, a low-income residential district. There is already a long ...

Maize milling factory owners, workers and traders at Nakuwadde-Bbira in Wakiso Sub-county, Wakiso District are counting losses after fire gutted their businesses, destroying property worth billions.

For most Nigerian households, the journey to the grinding machine is as routine as buying salt or kerosene. From Lagos to Kano, from Benue to Borno, families take their pepper, beans, maize, melon, ...