Worst economic drop in decades to leave most Kenyans poorer

Traders at the Eldoret open air market yesterday. Experts are warning that Kenya's economy will face a huge hit this year, affecting millions of Kenyans. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

In the coming months, you may not be able to afford your current lifestyle. Projections for the rest of the year on the Kenyan economy paint a gloomy future in which a vast majority of Kenyans will be penniless and unable to afford the basics of life.

The destruction caused by the novel coronavirus on the economy will for the first time since independence result in a negative growth for the economy or recession, killing whatever hopes of a revival that the country’s already fledgling economy harboured.