June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s economy expanded 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in the first quarter, compared with growth of 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on its website today.

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