Traders closed shops along Moi Avenue in Nairobi during protests on October 9, 2017. Commentators worried about how politicking is draining the economy. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG
Kenya’s drawn out election coupled with the political impasse is impacting negatively on the economy, threatening to have a spillover effect on the neighbours with whom it trades heavily.
Latest market and economic data, with a few exceptions, such as tourism and horticulture paint a picture of an economy in suspense as the two political poles maintain hardline positions, whose negativity is already showing in the macro and micro sides of the region’s largest economy.
