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Kenya's economy records slowest first quarter growth in five years
A vulture feeds on a carcass of a sheep at Dukana in Marsabit County on February 1, 2017. Drought negatively impacted Kenya's economic growth in the first quarter of the year. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Poor weather and reduced lending by commercials banks kept the first quarter economic growth at its slowest pace in five years as inflation dropped for the first time this year.
Kenya's economy expanded 4.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year, down from 5.9 per cent in the same period of 2016, the statistics office said Friday.
