A coalition of African civil society organisations has raised concerns over Kenya’s recent measures affecting foreign informal small-scale traders, warning that the implementation of the policy could fuel nationality-based discrimination, economic exclusion and xenophobic tensions across the East African Community (EAC).

President Ruto says small businesses should be reserved for Kenyans as his government moves against foreign traders.

Kenyan authorities have warned foreign nationals operating small businesses in the country without the required permits to stop working as the government moves to enforce a…