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Kenya tops countries with high food prices in latest ranking

Job Kimani sorts out a variety of fruit products at the Eldoret main market in Uasin Gishu County [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Kenya was among the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa whose citizens experienced the highest spike in food prices in February compared to the same month last year.

A new report by the World Bank says the rate at which food prices in Kenya increased over one year - technically known as food inflation - was close to that in war-ravaged countries on the continent.

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