KENYA
Police officers manning a roadblock mounted at Mau summit area along the Nakuru - Eldoret Highway while enforcing Lockdown and Night curfew due to Covid 19 Pandemic on March 29, 2020. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
It was swift and unexpected, but measures put in place to check the rising cases of Covid-19 in five counties have come with devastating effects.
The real impact of the government’s decision has been stinging, with statistics indicating that over 100,000 jobs have been lost in Nairobi, Machakos, Kiambu, Kajiado and Nakuru counties in the last month after the lockdown.
Mostly hit by the drastic move to extend curfew hours and close all entertainment joints as well as limit restaurants to takeaway service only, have been workers in the Hospitality Industry and the Transport sector.
Agency seeks expert in UAE exports push
Summary
The Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (Keproba) is hiring a consultant to conduct consumer research on local products that have the highest export potential to the United Arab Emirates.
The balance of trade between the two nations heavily favours the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Kenya mainly exporting tea, spices, goat meat, coffee and fresh cut flowers.
Wednesday April 07 2021
A worker packs flowers for export at a farm in Naivasha on February 10, 2017. FILE PHOTO NMG
By LYNET IGADWAH
Summary
The Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (Keproba) is hiring a consultant to conduct consumer research on local products that have the highest export potential to the United Arab Emirates.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has ruled out tax reliefs to cushion Kenyans and businesses during the partial lockdown affecting five counties that recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections.
THE STANDARD By
XN Iraki |
April 3rd 2021 at 11:49:29 GMT +0300
President Uhuru Kenyatta
The lockdown of five counties came on the heels of a big rise in fuel prices and uncertain rains. Can our economy absorb such shocks? I have no doubt that Kenyans would get a Nobel prize on resilience if such an award was ever given.
The number of employees in the informal sector is the best evidence of our resilience. In Kenya, 83 per cent of the citizens work in the informal sector. It seems a global phenomenon. International Labour Organization(ILO) in 2018 gives some interesting statistics, “ In Africa, 85.8 per cent of employment is informal. The proportion is 68.2 per cent in Asia and the Pacific, 68.6 per cent in the Arab States, 40.0 per cent in the Americas and 25.1 per cent in Europe and Central Asia. “ There is no continent without hustlers.