Kenya's Q1 economic growth rises to 4.9 pct y/y

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's economic growth rose to 4.9 percent in the first quarter of the year compared with a revised 4.7 percent during the same period a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. "All the sectors of the economy recorded positive growths of varying magnitudes except the hotels and restaurant whose growth contracted," the bureau said in a statement.