{"id":220076,"date":"2026-01-11T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-news-ethiopia-kenya-expected-to-drive-east-africas-growth-in-2026-un\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:38:59","slug":"east-africa-news-ethiopia-kenya-expected-to-drive-east-africas-growth-in-2026-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-news-ethiopia-kenya-expected-to-drive-east-africas-growth-in-2026-un\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: News &#8211; Ethiopia, Kenya Expected to Drive East Africa&#8217;s Growth in 2026: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia and Kenya are projected to be the main drivers of East Africa&#8217;s economic expansion in 2026, as the sub-region is expected to post the fastest growth rate on the continent, according to the United Nations&#8217; World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The UN forecasts East Africa&#8217;s economy to grow by 5.8 percent in 2026, up from 5.4 percent in 2025, outperforming all other African sub-regions. This performance is largely attributed to the economic outlook of Ethiopia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100236.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 Ethiopia and Kenya are projected to be the main drivers of East Africa&#8217;s economic expansion in 2026, as the sub-region is expected to post the fastest growth rate on the continent, according to the United Nations&#8217; World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 report. The UN forecasts East Africa&#8217;s economy to grow by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":220077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6287,13716,6719,4716,6474,6641,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-220076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-drive","tag-east","tag-ethiopia","tag-growth","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/220076","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=220076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}