{"id":223222,"date":"2026-02-08T23:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/tanzania-how-corruption-undermines-kenyas-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:39:31","slug":"tanzania-how-corruption-undermines-kenyas-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/tanzania-how-corruption-undermines-kenyas-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: How Corruption Undermines Kenya&#8217;s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 THE Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) recently released a 2024 report on corruption in Kenya. For economists, the report continues to demonstrate that corruption is a significant, entrenched impediment to economic development in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">While the EACC report paints a gloomy picture of corruption, other credible Kenyan sources suggest that the country loses up to 1.5 billion US dollars annually due to corruption, public-sector inefficiency and state capture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">To be in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060364.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 THE Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) recently released a 2024 report on corruption in Kenya. For economists, the report continues to demonstrate that corruption is a significant, entrenched impediment to economic development in the country. While the EACC report paints a gloomy picture of corruption, other credible Kenyan sources suggest that the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223223,"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":[258,256,4723,5762,430,6097,257,254,746,20113],"class_list":["post-223222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-economy","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania","tag-undermines"],"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\/223222","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=223222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}