Firewood and no meat: Kenya’s cost-of-living crisis bites
From news.trust.org
2022-07-18 10:45:00
Excerpt:
Neatly laid out on the roadside in Nairobi’s bustling Kawangware informal settlement, Florence Kageha’s piles of tomatoes, onions and sweet potatoes used to be snapped up by lunchtime each day.
These days, Kageha finds herself trying to dispose of them at dusk, offering them at giveaway prices to passers-by and losing half her weekly earnings of 2,000 Kenyan Shillings ($17) in the process.
“The price of vegetables at the wholesale market has doubled, so I have to sell at double the price, but the customers can’t afford it and I end up making a loss,” said Kageha, 44, who has spent more than two decades as a trader.
“At home, we don’t buy kerosene to cook anymore and use firewood or charcoal as it is…