UAE topples India in Kenya’s imports race on costly oil

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, a Dubai minister. PHOTO | PSCU

United Arab Emirates has leapfrogged India to become Kenya’s second largest source market after China on the back of soaring oil prices, official statistics show.

Provisional trade data on Friday showed expenditure on imports — largely petroleum products — from the Middle East more than doubled in the first six months of the year, reflecting runaway cost of fuel, which has hit businesses and households hard.

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