Nairobi diplomacy pays off with rise in EA exports

Trucks at the Kenya-Uganda border. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya’s exports to key East African Community’s markets hit a three-year high in first nine months of the year, provisional data shows, partly helped by Nairobi’s efforts to ease trade tensions with its regional trade partners.

Earnings from goods sold to Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda rose 8.06 percent to Sh88.34 billion in the January-September 2019 period compared with Sh81.76 billion over the same period last year.

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