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Financial Crisis Now Starting To Bite
Jan 31 2009, John

Food and fuel are already expensive. We have been blaming it on the government, financial crisis, post election violence in kenya and the huge spike in crude oil prices last year. All this has been happening with local cooperations and banks appearing...

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