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How Trump is scuttling Uhuru’s jobs blueprint

By Dominic Omondi | Jun. 20, 2020

**Customers combing through a heap of clothes in Gikomba market. [Edward Kiplimo/Standard]**

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ambition of helping over a million unemployed youth get jobs before he bows out in 2022 is being frustrated by his US counterpart Donald Trump.

Determined to push America’s commercial interests, the Trump administration has bullied Kenya into back-peddling on part of its job-creation plan in the textile sector, which includes raising tariff barriers against importation of second-hand clothes even as it offers incentives to local producers.

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