Thinner profits as vendors, food kiosks adjust to high charcoal prices

A worker in an eatery roast meat in an oven in Kisii town on 3/4/2018.There is a rise in cost of living with hotels raising the prices of food due to the rise in the cost of production. (Sammy Omingo, Standard)

The mud seems to be the least of their worries as they dash into open-air food kiosks lined up on the edge of Nairobi River.

This is the back end of Nairobi’s Grogon area, where hungry workers seated on wooden benches with sagging sacks for rooftops gather for lunch for as little as Sh20.