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Kenya’s economy grew 5.8 percent as 800,000 new jobs created

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya's economy grew by 5.8 percent in 2016 compared to 5.7 reported last year, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.

During the period under review the economy experienced conducive macroeconomic but the growth was hit by drought and a considerable slowdown in the uptake of credit in the fourth quarter.

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