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Article: Small earners face brunt of economic fallout: the effects of the violence that engulfed Kenya post the December elections, as usual, have fallen most severely on the small-scale farmers and workers. Dennis Onyango went on a fact-finding mission to the rural heartland of Kenya. Here is his report.(KENYA)
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- African Business
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- March 1, 2008
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The economy looks bad and it could get worse. It is not just about the big income earners like tourism and horticulture, which have sustained the country for years.
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Everyone, from the fishermen in Lake Victoria to the farmers in the Rift Valley and merchants in Nakuru are hurting. Everything is going down.
In the highlands of Kisii in Nyanza Province, the soap stone industry at Tabaka in South Mugirango has been badly affected by the violence that followed the flawed elections in December.
Tourists who were major buyers of the beautifully carved soap stone figures no longer visit the area. Traditional carvers who ...