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Kenya's KCB shuts branches as hyperinflation bites

KCB banking hall

South Sudan’s largest bank is shutting more branches as hyperinflation and a shortage of dollars eat into the group’s profits, the managing director said, underscoring country’s worsening financial woes amid a civil war.

Harun Kibogong told Reuters that Kenya-based KCB Group Plc, East Africa’s biggest bank by assets, will temporarily close five branches, leaving ten operational.

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