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Kenya’s exports to East Africa drop by Sh11b

Workers at Sky Foods Limited factory TreeTop juice in Juja, Kiambu. Kenya’s exports to East Africa dropped by the largest margin in three years in the third quarter of 2016. FILE PHOTO | SALATON NJAU

Kenya’s exports to the region dropped by the largest margin in three years in the third quarter of last year, to $275.7 million (about Sh28 billion) from $380.3 million (about Sh39 billion) in the first nine months of 2015, new data shows.

All countries in the region, with the exception of the Democratic Republic of Congo, cut their uptake of imports from Kenya, according to a report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

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