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Kenyan tourism tries to recover

One of the main industries in Kenya is tourism. But the Kenyan coast has faced four years of continuous decline over security fears. A spate of deadly terror attacks by the Somalian Islamist militants Al-Shabaab have put off foreign tourists from visiting the region. And as the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Joshua Thorpe has been finding out, the slump in the tourism industry has had a devastating effect on the local economy and people's livelihoods.

(Picture: A Kenyan beach hotel. Picture credit: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.)

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