Kenya has this year posted a drop in the value of imports for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic era due to reduced expenditure on key supplies such as materials for factories, machinery and fuel, fresh official data show.
Traders spent Ksh1.43 trillion ($9.7 billion) on goods ordered from abroad for the first seven months of the year compared with Ksh1.46 trillion ($9.9 billion) in a similar period last year, according to the data collated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).
