By Ajay Wasserman The debt markets are sending a clear message – and this time, African economies are listening carefully. The bond market is speaking. For...
By Sheena Raikundalia US President Trump’s decision to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act through December 2026 has sparked jubilation in Nairobi. But beneath the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Des H. Rikhotso From 2008 to 2022, Africa defied monolithic narratives. While the continent is often painted with a single brush – either as a...
By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya Every time a Kenyan exporter ships goods to Uganda and pays US$20 in foreign-exchange fees to settle the transaction, it’s not...
By Des H Rikhotso Nairobi is quietly powering a continental transformation. As global markets pivot toward sustainable transport, Kenya is emerging not just as a participant...
By Mary Alorh As the first pope hailing from the Global South, Pope Francis brought a profound understanding of the entrenched issues of inequality, imperialism, and...
Kenyan President William Ruto’s push to reduce reliance on the US dollar in African trade has gained traction with the launch of the Pan-African Payments Settlement...
By Danilo Desiderio A report released on January 28, 2025, by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) forecasts that Kenya will become the world’s fastest-growing internet advertising market in the...
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom and the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) have proposed making Pesalink Kenya’s next-generation fast payment system (FPS), advocating for an industry-led approach to...
A private equity firm backed by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is set to acquire Java House, a leading East African coffee chain. Mauritius-based Alterra Capital,...
Kenya has announced a new directive allowing citizens from nearly all African countries to enter without prior authorization. This replaces the controversial Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)...
Haiti’s Prime Minister, Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, stated that the deployment of 218 Kenyan police and military personnel underscores the commitment of both the Haitian government and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the late leader of Iran decided to tour Africa in mid-2023, he chose to visit states in East and Southern Africa....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
The energetic African youth population continues to be the greatest contributor to its global presence. The entertainment space is dominated by young, talented artists who continue...
By Gregory Simpkins Making arrangements to travel often begins early in the year, especially if it involves international travel. The Business Insider Africa website has rated...
By Edson Mpyisi Kenya stands at a pivotal moment where its youthful population can become either its greatest asset or a significant challenge. With over 75%...
Late last week, Uganda launched a significant US$3 billion Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project that will connect the country to the Kenyan border, with the potential...
AFP | Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday scrapped controversial deals with India’s embattled Adani Group over Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and a state-owned...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia plans to export about 100 megawatts of electricity to Tanzania via Kenya once the nations finalize a deal that will enable cross-border trade...
Kenyan Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have commenced their inaugural export shipments of various products to the the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), South...
By Gregory Simpkins By the time this is posted on our website, there will be only days until the 2024 national elections in the United States....
AP | Kenya’s president Friday nominated the country’s interior minister as his new deputy, hours after Rigathi Gachagua was overwhelmingly voted out as deputy president in...
Kenya has unveiled plans to restrict the export of valuable minerals in their raw form, marking a significant policy shift aimed at increasing government revenue. This...
AP | The leaders of Kenya and Haiti on Friday urged international partners to honor their commitment to the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti, saying the...
By Danilo Desiderio The competition among African nations to emerge as the next Silicon Valley is growing more intense. In East Africa, countries like Kenya and...
Kenya is redefining its tourism industry with a groundbreaking policy that allows foreign travelers on connecting flights to explore the country without the need for a...
AFP | Kenya is aiming to complete its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti by January, President William Ruto said Thursday, as Haiti’s...
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Tuesday that the country’s long-anticipated involvement in the Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti is set to commence. Holness...
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is set to begin importing milk and coffee from Uganda, marking a significant step forward for intra-African trade. This development follows...
Reuters | Kenya’s finance ministry will seek suggestions from the public on new legislation to boost revenue and tackle other challenges, Finance Minister John Mbadi said...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Global Terrorism Index, a comprehensive study evaluating the impact of terrorism in 163 countries, covers about 99.7 percent of the world’s...
By Mary Alorh Over the years, the political landscape of Africa has undergone significant transformation, particularly in terms of political participation. Today, most African nations embrace...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues its involvement in Haiti through the efforts of three former prime ministers appointed by CARICOM Heads of Government to support the...
Reuters | Kenya’s Mobius Motors, which started making rugged, low-priced SUVs designed for Africa’s roads a decade ago, has decided to stop operating due to financial...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Some time ago, I read a book that explored aspects of European political culture using a comparative approach. The author(s) argued that...
By Nii Simmonds and Ayodele Okeowo The recent announcement of a partnership between the US Trade and Development Agency and Kenya to boost semiconductor manufacturing in...
The vision of Africa’s founding fathers to unite the continent in shared prosperity is coming to fruition as Nigeria prepares to launch Preferential Trade under the...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the second-largest and fourth-most populous country in Africa, joined the East African Community...
Bloomberg | Kenya is in talks with a unit of Nigeria-based Sahara Group Ltd., to co-build a 30,000-ton facility to handle and store liquefied petroleum gas,...
Reuters | A Kenyan parliamentary panel has recommended that the government scrap new taxes on items like cars and bread that were proposed as part of...
Lilian Seenoi-Barr has been confirmed as the first black mayor of a council in Northern Ireland. Representing the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Seenoi-Barr accepted the...
Kenyan Wall Street | US Tech giant Microsoft Corporation, in collaboration with G42, an Emirati artificial intelligence (AI) development company, has announced a $1 billion investment...
Kenyan Wall Street | Kenya’s economy is expected to remain resilient in 2024 after a 5.6 percent expansion last year from a revised growth of 4.9...
Haiti has embarked on the quest for a new prime minister as part of the agreement forged on April 3 this year, marking the genesis of...
Suriname has stepped forward as the latest member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) willing to deploy troops to Haiti as part of a United Nations-endorsed Multinational...
Kenya’s President William Ruto has made history by appointing the first female commander of the air force. Major General Fatuma Ahmed’s appointment marks a significant milestone...
In a bid to ramp up tourism revenue, Kenya and Uganda have joined forces to fuse their rich cultural tapestries. These East African nations are eyeing...
By Babajide Oluwase The climate is changing at an astronomical rate and the impact of this can be seen everywhere. Imagine stepping outside your apartment for...
AP | Kenya’s military chief General Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced Thursday and declared three days...
Reuters | Kenya has proposed a regional maritime treaty to defuse tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia over a deal allowing Ethiopia to set up a naval...
The Rowley administration announced on Tuesday that it would not be providing military support to address the security challenges in Haiti, where criminal groups are attempting...
Kenya Airways, the national carrier of Kenya, unveiled promising financial results on Tuesday, signaling a notable turnaround after seven years of struggle. In 2023, the airline...
AP | Caribbean leaders met with embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Sunday to talk about his country’s security situation, with one top official noting...
Kenya-based start-up, Kuza Freezer, is converting plastic waste, recycling it, and using it to make solar-powered freezers. Kuza Freezer is a youth-led company based in Mombasa,...
Business Daily | Kenya has begun twitching its online visitor registration service that policymakers wanted to use to ease travel into the country, but which saw...
Business Daily | The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has picked Frank Mwiti as the new chief executive effective May 2, to replace outgoing CEO Geoffrey Odundo,...
AP | Haiti’s government announced Wednesday that it is working on an official agreement with Kenyan officials to secure the long-awaited deployment of a police force...
By Bob Kikuyu The positioning of the African Union (AU) Summit at the front of the calendar year serves well as a platform to sound the...
AP | Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, a fellow athlete who went to the hospital and saw...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
AFP | A Kenyan court on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to deploy police to Haiti to lead a UN-backed multinational mission aimed at restoring...
The Children in Freedom School in Nakuru, Kenya, takes pride in its Afrocentric approach to education, emphasizing the greatness inherent in every African child. This approach...
Reuters | Tanzania said on Tuesday it had reinstated approval for Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways to operate flights between the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Tanzania’s...
Reuters | Tanzania has withdrawn approval for Kenyan national carrier Kenya Airways to operate flights between the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Kenya gained independence in December 1963, its neighbors Tanzania and Uganda were already independent. Also, even though Jomo Kenyatta was a...
Jamaica Observer | The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), in paving the way for more cross-border listings locally, has signed its latest memorandum of understanding (MOU) with...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Right after the independence of many African states, the idea of development and the approach to it, took center stage in their...
AFP | American Noah Lyles and Faith Kipyegon of Kenya were named track athletes of the year, World Athletics announced in Monaco on Monday. Lyles was...
AP | The Kenyan High Court on Tuesday struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and...
By Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo Sub-Saharan African countries strongly rely on the agricultural and forestry sectors. Agriculture contributes up to 60 percent of...
AFP | Kenya’s parliament on Thursday approved the proposed deployment of its police to lead a UN-backed multinational mission to Haiti to restore peace and security...
By Alan Hirsch President William Ruto of Kenya recently announced that Kenya’s borders would be open to visitors from the entirety of Africa, with no visas...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Integration in Africa was one of the pressing topics in the 1950s and 1960s. At a point, disagreement over how to achieve...
AP | The Kenyan government announced Monday a surprise public holiday on November 13 for a nationwide tree planting day, part of its ambitious plan to...
By Gregory Simpkins I recently came across an intriguing headline in the New York Times: “The World Is Becoming More African.” The point being made is...
Reuters | Ethiopian Tamirat Tola crushed the competition to win the New York City Marathon in a course record 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds...
AP | Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such...
Africanews | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced the impending removal of visa requirements for all African visitors by the end of this year. Speaking at...
AP | A court in Kenya has extended orders blocking the deployment of Kenyan police to Haiti to lead a U.N Security Council-approved mission to combat...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
AP | Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang...
By Chinedu Okafor Kenya plans to begin building its first nuclear power station in 2027 as the nation works to diversify its energy production in response...
Startups in Kenya have received more equity funding from investors in Africa in the first half of 2023, as per data released by Briter Bridges. The...
A delegation of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Sunday on a reconnaissance mission to the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country following the East African...
Reuters | Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service went live in Ethiopia on Wednesday, in a boost to the Kenyan telecoms operator as it seeks to kickstart...
Uber and Safaricom have partnered to ease payment of trips by riders across Kenya through M-Pesa. This follows an earlier deal between the wireless carrier and...
Reuters | Kenya is ready to lead a multinational force into Haiti, which is experiencing a surge in violence between police and gangs, its foreign minister...
AP | Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon broke the women’s mile record by nearly 5 seconds on Friday at the Monaco Diamond League for her third world mark...
By Imali Ngusale The human rights office spokesman Jeremy Laurence calls for prompt, thorough, independent and transparent investigations into the deaths and injuries related to the...
By Caroline Kimeu When Ugandans Maureen Agena and Edward Echwalu arrived at the Lesotho border during their five-month road trip across east and southern Africa, the...
By Morgan J. Robinson Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It’s been adopted as a working language at the African...
Bloomberg | Kenya plans to repurchase at least half of its US$2 billion eurobond that’s maturing in June 2024 before the end of this year, President...
Bloomberg | Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put...
Reuters | A Kenyan parliamentary committee has approved of President William Ruto’s pick for the next central bank governor and recommended that the National Assembly supports...
Business Daily | Kenyan President William Ruto has announced plans to remove visa requirements for African nationals travelling to Kenya for business as a first major...
By Imali Ngusale The odyssey of broadening Kenyan tax net has led to the proposal of contentious Finance Bill that has elicit uproar and anger in...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
AFP | Injury has forced Jamaican sprint star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to withdraw from a weekend athletics meet in Kenya that would have signalled the start of...
AFP | Ethiopia’s central bank said on Thursday it had issued a mobile money licence to Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom, the first granted to a foreign...
Top representatives from Kenya Airways (KQ) and Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) have met to discuss the prospect of a cargo transportation collaboration. This news comes...
AFP | Kenya’s first operational satellite was launched into orbit on Saturday by a SpaceX rocket that took off from California, USA, according to images from...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been increasing talk about a New World Order created by the alliance primarily of China and Russia, along with other nations...
AFP | Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country’s space programme, the government has revealed. Taifa-1, or...
Reuters | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Sunday he was suspending anti-government protests and was ready for talks after an appeal from President William...
By XN Iraki In the run-up to Kenya’s 2022 polls, economic issues, particularly public debt, and joblessness, took center stage. The Kenya Kwanza team led by...
By Imali Ngusale The two-thirds gender principle is not progressive, by now Kenya is supposed to have legislated and mandated it. Article 3 of the Kenyan...
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) – the Central Bank of East Africa – will be made this year, a key...
Kenyan banks, increasingly embattled by mobile money providers, are looking to wrestle control from industry leader M-Pesa
Reuters | Kenya will not default on its debt and plans to ramp up tax collection in the next two years, President William Ruto said on...
By Gregory Simpkins Being left out of industrialization for so long has been an obstacle for emerging markets in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean...
Reuters | The duty-free access for nearly 40 African countries in a 22-year-old U.S. trade program is no longer enough to boost their development and a...
By Gregory Simpkins I have worked on analyzing Africa issues for more than 40 years, and during that time, I have constantly heard appeals for humanitarian...
AP |The presidents of South Africa and Kenya said Wednesday they have resolved a long-standing visa dispute and Kenyans will be able to visit South Africa...
AFP | Wilson Kiprugut Chuma, the middle-distance runner who became Kenya’s first Olympic medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Games, has died at the age of 84,...
By Boutheina Guermazi, Brigit Pickel and Lacina Koné Digital technologies offer new avenues for economic growth in Africa by accelerating job creation, supporting access to public...
Bloomberg | Africa’s annual exports are expected to double to US$540 billion by 2030 from a decade earlier, chiefly on shipments from Nigeria to the Asian...
The presidents of Tanzania and Kenya have agreed to fast-track the construction of a natural gas pipeline designed to increase trade and lower energy costs for...
The East African | Kenya exported its first goods under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to Ghana late last month. Kenyan-made Exide batteries...
AFP | Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge has beaten his own world marathon record by 30 seconds, running 2hr 01min 10sec in Berlin on Sunday. At the...
Reuters | William Ruto was sworn as Kenya’s 5th president on Tuesday, taking the helm a week after the country’s top court threw out petitions challenging...
SABC | The Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says he has spoken to outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta about the handing over process that will see Ruto officially...
By Gregory Simpkins Elections play a significant part in the establishment and maintenance of representative democracy worldwide, but all too often, the entirety of the process...
Bloomberg | Kenya Airways Plc is looking to reduce jet-leasing costs by more than a third as the carrier targets break even by 2024. Negotiations with...
By Cara Anna | The Associated Press Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over 5-time...
African Markets | The Kenyan shilling has for the first time crossed the Sh119 mark against the dollar, triggering costly imports and higher international debt repayments ahead of Tuesday’s general...
Kenya will become a regional hub for medical equipment, which will help neighboring countries get required medicines faster.
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
By Ngusale Imali The presidency in Kenya continues to be the most coveted political position in the country, and, in its earnest, the socio-political atmosphere in...
Bloomberg | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who’s running for president for a fifth time, drew ahead of rival candidate Deputy President William Ruto in an...
Bloomberg | Kenya may be poised to have its first female deputy president after one of the leading contenders in this year’s general election picked a...
The two fastest-growing companies in Africa are in Kenya, according to a new ranking released by the Financial Times on Tuesday, and 5 of the top...
Reuters | Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Sunday his government would hike the country’s minimum wage by 12 percent immediately to help workers cope with...
Kenya’s former president, Mwai Kibaki, has died at the age of 90, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. He was president of Kenya from 2003 to 2013....
AFP | Kenya’s Evans Chebet held off two past champions to win the men’s crown and reigning Olympic champion compatriot Peres Jepchirchir captured the women’s title...
Reuters | Ugandan film producer Raymond Malinga, whose work will feature in an upcoming Disney anthology of animated films from across Africa, hopes the project will...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
AP | The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Berlin-based architect, educator and social activist, for a craft that is “sustainable...
Reuters | Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday used his new party’s nomination to stand for Kenya’s presidency in an August election to lambast President Uhuru...
Reuters | Kenya lifted its remaining COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, including a ban on large indoor gatherings such as religious services and a requirement to present...
AFP | US vaccine maker Moderna announced Monday that it would build its first mRNA jab-manufacturing facility in Africa after signing an agreement with Kenya’s government...
Press Release | The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) have nominated Dr. Miriam Were of Kenya for the 2022...
Google, in its latest “Africa Developer Ecosystem Report 2021“, has revealed that Africa’s tech developer ecosystem is on the rise. This is according to the findings...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
Bloomberg | A Kenyan technology company, MarketForce, raised US$40 million in a funding round led by V8 Capital Partners of Nigeria to expand its digital retail-distribution...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
By Edson Mpyisi Last month, there was a hue and cry in Kenya when the multinational food corporation, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), ran out of fries...
Kenya is set to lead the world’s peer to peer cryptocurrency market for the second consecutive year according to Marius Reitz, the general manager for the...
Opibus is the first company to make the vehicles in Africa.
Bloomberg | Safaricom Plc., first-half profit jumped as the company reinstated charges on mobile-money transfers, Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa told investors Wednesday. Africa’s second-biggest company...
The technology has enabled small businesses in remote areas in Kenya to access affordable power, and has been adopted to solve a new problem: keeping COVID-19...
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
"If there is anything, we have learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic is the essence of self-reliance" - Uhuru Kenyatta
With less than a year to go to the end of his term, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta is worrying about the legacy he will leave behind...
AP | Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championships bronze medalist, has been found dead at her home, the country’s track federation said Wednesday. Athletics...
Economies of Angola, Nigeria and South Africa were expected to come out of recession this year.
Mobile wallet payments are highest in usage as well as preference in Kenya.
Court rules minimum tax is unconstitutional; government was seeking additional income to reduce fiscal gap.
AFP | The 2004 Olympic champion Justin Gatlin put retirement on hold despite having to settle for third in Saturday’s season-closing 100m at the World Athletics...
Kenya’s dominance however has historically been tested by Ethiopians. More recently, the challenge comes from the emergence of Uganda, cementing the place of East Africa as...
Platform will further integrate informal traders into formal markets through better access to digital finance systems.
There is a need to inspire, empower and motivate young people to innovate in different segments of agricultural activity.
MVX wants to make freight shipping and trade finance easier for African businesses by bringing booking and deployment processes online.
AFP | Kenya said Friday it is extending a nighttime curfew and banning public gatherings to slow the spread of COVID-19, warning that hospitals were becoming...
Reuters | A project in Kenya is using biogas technology to tackle two major pollution problems with one device: a machine that converts waste such as...
The dependent on pharmaceutical imports leaves Africans vulnerable to shortages of medication. More local manufacturing of medications could strengthen health systems throughout the continent.
Since 1996, Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa's Higherlife Foundation has provided education to vulnerable and orphaned African children.
By Jack Smith IV Every week, the American tech sector uses the most advanced mobile technologies in the world to create some new meaningless distraction. Tinder...
U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had...
By Jake Bright As entrepreneurship takes off in countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for more ways to boost...
East African governments are betting big on new railway and port projects to boost the regional market’s competitiveness with Asia. After years of neglect, East Africa’s...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall is to re-open Saturday, nearly 2 years after it was attacked by Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Islamist extremists – al-Shabaab – who killed at least...
By Maina Waruru Kenya’s renewable energy sector is set for a boost in September when a solar microgrid company plans to become the country’s first licensed...
Kenya will offer five state-owned sugar companies for sale to private investors over the next year after writing off Ksh59 billion (US$611 million) of debt, the...
Kenya will not forcibly repatriate some 336,000 Somalis living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps – the Dabaab camp – however, the Kenyatta administration...
(Bloomberg) – Investors skittish about Nigerian assets as plunging oil prices pummel the West African nation’s economy are casting their eyes across the continent to Kenya....
Kenya burned 15 metric tons of elephant tusks and rhino horns Tuesday as part of efforts to curb poaching of the mammals in the East African...
Kenyan stocks rallied to a record high in the longest winning streak in almost 10 months as investors who pulled money from Nigeria bought into East...
Technology company Uber will explore the possibility of integrating the M-Pesa mobile payment service into its smartphone app service. However, the Company cannot disclose when this...
Online retailer Jumia Kenya is giving its customers a chance to earn some money by simply referring people to the website. The offer does not have...
Kenya’s leading wireless operator, Safaricom, has cut roaming charges for subscribers travelling to 21 countries across the world, giving them much needed relief from the usually...
Kenya’s delayed Lake Turkana Wind Power project is expected to start generating power by 2017 after the African Development Bank backed financing to build a transmission...
Kenya’s president announced a security shakeup Tuesday, accepting the resignations of both the Interior Secretary and the national police chief, in the wake of a series...
By Philip Ochieng Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto. PHOTO/Billy Mutai – The Kenyan President relinquished power in order to free the...
Kenya’s gross domestic product was estimated to be 25 percent bigger after the authorities changed the base calculation year to 2009 from 2001, sending the east...
Kenyan troops will remain in Somalia until peace and stability is restored to the region, President Uhuru Kenyatta said, one year after gunmen stormed a shopping...
Kenyans transacted US$13 billion on mobile money in the first 6 months of this year as new players joined the sector according to the latest Central...
Kenya and Nigeria traditionally steal the spotlight regarding African innovation centers, but South Africa quietly leads the continent with the highest number of such facilities. The...
Vodafone’s hold on the African telecoms market is facing a new challenge from rivals seeking to compete directly with its dominant M-Pesa mobile money platform. Three Tanzanian...
The East African Community (EAC) comprising Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya has increased import duty on rice in a move to discourage cheap imports of...
Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan are expected to invite bids for a consultant to oversee the building of an oil pipeline to transport crude. The crude...
Several agriculture projects in Tanzania have been awarded grants worth almost 650,000 US dollars by the Agriculture Fast Track Fund (AFT). “The AFT has granted two...
Public service vehicles in Kenya will from July be expected to implement an electronic payment system, according to a government gazette. As per the Operation of...
A major crisis is looming in Kenya’s capital markets after directors at the CMA failed to have their contracts renewed. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) also...
Somali militant group al-Shabaab has vowed to shift its war to neighboring Kenya by sending more fighters to attack government and civilians targets. Speaking Thursday in...
