8m Kenyans trapped in extreme poverty, says UN agency

Poverty elimination has been among the key commitments made by successive regimes since Independence. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya is underperforming in its poverty reduction efforts with the 2030 aim to end extreme poverty remaining off target, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa has said.

The country’s current one-person-per-minute rate of escape from extreme poverty falls below the target rate of 1.4 by close to 30 percent, leaving some 7.97 million Kenya still living in extreme poverty as at March 2020.

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