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Kenya shilling hits one-month low

The Kenyan shilling fell nearly 1 percent to a one-month low against the dollar on Friday on piled-up demand for the U.S. currency after electronic trading was disrupted in the country for two days.

A cut in an inland fibre optic cable on Monday affected Internet service providers and by Wednesday had interrupted normal trading of the commercial banks.

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