Business

With a weeping baby cuddled at her back, she stoops to give the customer lemons from her worn-out basket. All she needs is money to buy other foodstuffs to feed her five children.

Kenyans abroad sent home $106.2 million in March, the highest monthly amount since the central bank started releasing data on the flows in 2006, and 48 percent up from the same month last year.

Uganda’s central bank held interest rates at 21 percent on Wednesday and put off any immediate easing, citing jumps in food prices, but promised it would make a fresh attempt to cut borrowing costs later in 2012.