Does Nairobi produce 45% of Kenya’s GDP, the figure given by the UK’s Guardian newspaper recently? New data, which includes counties’ contribution to the economy, puts the capital’s share of gross domestic product at just over 20%.
Alphonce ShiunduThey promised big changes. Have they carried them out? The African Election Promise Tracker shows progress made to date.
The official unemployment rate was 29% in the second quarter (April to June) of 2019. It means that 29% of the labour force, aged 15 to 64, was without work, available for work and looking for work or trying to start a business. This is also known as the narrow definition of unemployment. The expanded definition of unemployment doesn’t require someone to be looking for a job. They just need to be without work and available for work. According to this definition, the unemployment rate was 38.5%.
Did poor people lose money from the looting of VBS Mutual Bank? The South African government’s guarantee of up to R100,000 per depositor means the answer is less clear than it might seem.
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Entries for the African Fact-checking Awards are now closed. The shortlist will be unveiled in August 2019.
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