DRC now Kenya’s fastest-growing EAC export market

Trucks with transit goods from the Mombasa Port queue as they approach the Mariakani Weigh Bridge on April 18, 2023.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has overtaken Uganda to become Kenya’s fastest-growing export market within the East African Community bloc, new data shows, despite frosty diplomatic relations between Nairobi and Kinshasa.

Kenya’s exports to the DRC jumped by more than half (56.04 percent) to Sh8.62 billion in the first three months of the year, according to the latest official data, the biggest year-on-year growth in over a decade.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.