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World Bank report says East Africa economic growth strong

Anticipated flows into East Africa’s oil and gas sector will cushion the region against a drop in economic growth, says the World Bank.

“Growth is expected to be particularly strong in East Africa, increasingly supported by FDI flows into offshore natural gas resources in Tanzania, and the onset of oil production in Uganda and Kenya,” said the Bank in its latest Global Economic Prospects report.

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