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EAC states yet to meet benchmarks for single currency

Kenya: Business executives, economists and technocrats are right to welcome the drive towards a single currency across the five East African countries with muted optimism.

Although it can make the region a strong single market of 140 million people, its success will require greater political commitment than the five leaders and their predecessors have demonstrated so far.

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