{"id":177950,"date":"2024-08-05T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-private-sector-activity-deteriorates-on-gen-z-led-protest\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:56:04","slug":"kenyas-private-sector-activity-deteriorates-on-gen-z-led-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-private-sector-activity-deteriorates-on-gen-z-led-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Private Sector Activity Deteriorates On Gen Z-Led Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Private sector activities in Kenya last month saw a sharp decline, weighed down by Gen Z&#8217;s countrywide protests that disrupted business operations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Latest Stanbic Bank Kenya&#8217;s Purchasng Manager&#8217;s Index (PMI) shows that the country&#8217;s PMI in July dropped to 43.1 percent from 47.2 in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">While a PMI reading below 50 indicates a downtick and deterioration in business activities, the figure above shows growth and improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Up until last month, Kenyan young people went to the streets to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050633.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Private sector activities in Kenya last month saw a sharp decline, weighed down by Gen Z&#8217;s countrywide protests that disrupted business operations. Latest Stanbic Bank Kenya&#8217;s Purchasng Manager&#8217;s Index (PMI) shows that the country&#8217;s PMI in July dropped to 43.1 percent from 47.2 in June. While a PMI reading below 50 indicates a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[20993,258,256,31818,11240,430,6097,257,5990,2194,5991,254,49230],"class_list":["post-177950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activity","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deteriorates","tag-gen","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-private","tag-protest","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}