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Thimas Opudo, a businessman in Migori County, inspects his fridge, which was smashed during the weekend protests. Kisumu and Migori are smarting from high food prices occasioned by shortages. [Caleb King'wara, Standard]
The cost of food and transport has more than doubled in Kisumu as the impact of the protests that left one person dead and several others injured continues to bite.
Kisumu and other major towns in Nyanza have not been receiving food supplies from the neghbouring Nandi, Kericho and Nyamira counties and from Uganda since August 8 when protests broke out after Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of the presidential election.
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