Kenyan economy still struggling year after protests

Citizens demonstrate along the streets of Nairobi's CBD to reject the Finance Bill. June 20, 2024. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Roadside vendor and mother-of-five Christine Naswa bemoaned the state of the Kenyan economy as she hawked vegetables by one of Nairobi's busiest thoroughfares.

"The economy is very poor right now. There is no money in Kenya," Naswa, 40, told AFP as the smell of sliced ginger she was hawking powered through bus fumes.