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Battered by COVID-19 restrictions, Kenya’s economy slumps into first recession since 2000
Kenya slipped into an economic recession for the first time since the third quarter of 2020 as the restrictions introduced by the government in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on key sectors of the economy. The East African country’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 1.1% compared with a year earlier, after…