The United Arab Emirates has leapfrogged four top markets to become Kenya's second largest destination for goods largely on increased re-exports of jet fuel, official data released yesterday shows, underlining Nairobi's growing status as a regional aviation hub.
Kenya's earnings from goods sold to the oil-rich country more than doubled in the nine months ended September 2024 to Sh86.89 billion compared with Sh39.72 billion a year earlier, data collated by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics shows.
