Kenya: Firewood and No Meat – Kenya’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Bites

Nairobi — The inflation diaries: As Kenyans gear up for an Aug. 9 election, rising food and fuel prices have become a major campaign issue

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…