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Spare the piggy bank, but enjoy Christmas cheer

Cooperative Bank piggy banks for children. [Patrick Vidija, Standard]

Kenyans head into Christmas after a tough year marked by economic challenges. Mercifully, it has been a good year on the farms after years of drought, which, coupled with Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, pushed the country to the brink of food distress.

Images of bony children in the north and skeletons of livestock were splashed on the front pages of the main dailies and on TV.

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