02-08-2017 05:28 via yahoo.com

Kenya may be growing but 'You can't eat GDP'

Two months before Kenya's August 8 vote, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the nation's biggest infrastructure project: a railway connecting the capital Nairobi and the port of Mombasa.With pomp and ceremony Kenyatta touted the railway as proof of his campaign promises on the economy, yet at the same time the price of maize flour, a Kenyan staple, was rising fast, stoking anger, especially among the poorest.Rising food prices constitute a crisis on the eve of a high-stakes election in which K
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