The Kenyan shilling is expected to receive cushion from the upcoming sovereign bond floated later this month. This is sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest Eurobond of two...
Citibank, the consumer banking division of financial services multinational Citigroup, says growing insecurity in Kenya has not changed the country’s attractiveness to investors. “Kenya is a...
Kenya’s main electricity producer KenGen is looking for an adviser to help it secure financing for the development of a 140 megawatt (MW) geothermal plant, it...
Africell is a privately owned telecoms company with operations in African countries such as Gambia, Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of the Congo. An Orange Group...
Ten people died and at least 70 were injured in two explosions at the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, BBCNews reports. Friday’s bombings took place two days after the U.K.,...
Kenya has promised the top 200 industrial power consumers dedicated direct lines to alleviate frequent power outages, which has led to losses in millions of dollars...
Kenya has rebuked Britain, the United States, Australia and France on Thursday for issuing warnings about travel to the east African country and particularly its main...
Kenya’s energy regulator increased the maximum retail price of a liter of petrol and diesel till mid-June. However, the regulator decreased the price of a liter...
When it comes to acronyms of the global economy, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have repeatedly represented Africa. They show up in acronyms coined by economists and...
Security trumps all as the Kenyatta government enters its second year in office and the economy weakens due to concerns about terrorism and the rising costs...
The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will sell up to a 38 percent stake in an initial public offering by the end of next month to raise...
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telecoms operator, expects its free cash flow to rise by 10-17 percent in its financial year ending next March. This will be driven...
The race is on between Uganda and Kenya to see which will emerge as the region’s first oil producer. With the Ugandan government estimating reserves of about...
East African leaders and China formally signed agreements on Sunday for the construction of a new multi-billion dollar railway linking the Kenyan port of Mombasa to...
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is visiting Kenya over the weekend for a three-day visit during which Kenya and China sign more than 17 new contracts....
Uganda on Thursday said it wanted to borrow $145 million from the World Bank to revamp infrastructure in the Albertine region where it discovered commercial oil...
Of the newly discovered 46 oil blocks in Kenya, the East African country’s authorities has awarded seven oil blocks to Nigerian businessmen. This announcement comes on...
The Kenyan economy is set to face a strain as the country is moving toward increased security so as to lure prospective investors. Robert Bunyi, chief...
While Africa’s growth in mobile and internet access has been rising faster over the last decade than any other region of the world, the continent is...
Kenya launched a single electronic system for processing imports and exports. This was done to simplify red tape blamed for holding up trade in the trading...
The fight against cybercrime in Kenya is being taken up at government level following the country’s introduction of a policy and legal framework dubbed the ‘cyber...
Kenya’s audit firm, RSM Ashvir, says one of the youngest finance houses, Equity Bank, registered best returns on deployed assets. According to media reports, Equity’s returns...
African sugar producers on Tuesday sought ways to increase trade of the commodity on the continent to survive falling world prices and the end of duty-free...
The high cost of doing business in Kenya’s local textile industry is becoming a local and international investment deterrent. Rajeev Arora, executive director at Africa Cotton...
Kenya’s economy grew by a slower-than-expected 4.7 percent in 2013 mainly because drought hurt agriculture output. The announcement was made by the planning minister said on...
The race is on between Kenya and Uganda to become East Africa’s first commercial oil producer. Both countries plan to start oil production within the next...
London-based magazine International Banker has named Gideon Muriuki, Chief executive of Co-operative Bank of Kenya (Co-op Bank) as Africa’s banking CEO of the year, with the...
Kenya has been ranked as Africa’s fourth most sought after country for mergers and acquisitions, a Mergermarket report has said. “It’s driven by the growth rates...
Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are looking for an adviser to help them secure financing for a $4.13 billion railway project aimed at boosting cross-border trade in...
Kenya is set to begin the Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway construction as soon as funds needed to start the project is released by China from a...
Kenya’s energy regulator cut the maximum retail price of a liter of diesel and kerosene till mid-May but raised the price of a liter of petrol...
As young pitchmen shout to potential passengers over blaring music, a graffiti-covered private minibus fills up more quickly than the other dozen in the scrum. It...
Upcoming entrepreneurs in East Africa have been given a gleam of hope after the announcement of a 20 million dollar fund. The fund, named the Novastar...
Ethiopia’s leading private oil marketer plans to expand into neighboring east African economies and is interested in part financing a refinery after commercial discoveries in the...
Nearly a third of Kenyan enterprises view the implementation of cloud services and expansion of existing cloud infrastructure as a priority for the future, according to...
The market for luxury goods has increased worldwide in the last 20 years and African products have entered into that niche. According to consumer research company...
Australia’s Base Titanium is in tense royalty talks with the Kenyan government for its first shipment of ilmenite. Joe Schwarz, the general manager for Base Titanium...
Kenya Airways 787 Dreamliner. PHOTO/Boeing Kenya Airways, Africa’s forth largest carrier has acquired the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The 787 will form the backbone of the airline’s...
The Kenyan banking sector has been more resilient on stock performance compared to its Nigerian counterparts. “The reason why the Kenyan banks stock price share performances...
Kenya’s beer market continues to thrive and improvements to the country’s local brands have turned them into the more favoured tastes. “Generally we’re seeing one...
Kenya is fast becoming the main African hub for global technology companies because the country is getting its IT skills training right. This is the view...
Kenya will offer new oil blocks to investors before the end of June after discoveries by Britain’s Tullow Oil in the East African country and neighboring...
Washington will host the US-Africa summit in August, but it is already late to the game of African summitry. Japan hosted its first Africa summit in...
ARM Cement Limited, Kenya’s second-biggest cement producer, said on Tuesday it expects profits to grow again this year. This is after it posted a 12 per...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) said on Tuesday it was in the second phase of a $1.9 billion financing for Kenya Airways, providing funding for 10...
(Reuters) – An explosion in an area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed 6 people and wounded several others on Monday, the...
Kenya will progressively get another 280 MW to feed the electricity starved country, as the latest of the geothermal plants at Olkaria, located at the foot...
The eruption of fighting in South Sudan brought East Africa’s political crises into sharp focus at a time of optimism about the region’s economic take-off. Undaunted,...
Kenya-based I&M Bank Group recorded a profit of 20.8 percent profit after tax in the year ending December 2013, with earnings rising from the Sh4.12 billion...
At least three African nations are looking to add nuclear power to their grid. Kenya and Nigeria want to establish nuclear energy, and South Africa, the...
Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya expects east Africa’s burgeoning middle class to drive growth in 2014 after it recorded a 16 percent rise in 2013 pretax...
Wind farm located at the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File The construction of Africa’s biggest wind power project – the Lake Turkana wind power project...
The project and its financiers signed agreements for the sum, paving the way for the start of the 623 million euro project, the largest single wind...
In the past two years, private equity deals solidified in Kenya have doubled, according to a Capital FM report. As outlined in the article, an East Africa...
Kenyans have confidence in mobile transactions by their banks amidst lowering confidence in customer care. This is according to a new report by audit firm Ernst...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
Co-operative Bank of Kenya reported on Wednesday a 9 percent rise in pre-tax profit for 2013 and said it expected better growth this year thanks to...
Authorities in Kenya have revealed that police have intercepted a car with improvised explosive devices, foiling a planned terrorist attack in the coastal city of Mombasa....
US based solar energy solutions firm Magic Bridge Energy has announced plans to set up shops in Kenya and invest solar power systems in schools and...
Industrialist Manu Chandaria urged Kenyan businesses to venture into the Ethiopian market in order to reap big from one of the fastest growing economy globally. “Ethiopia...
Oil exploration is the real deal in Kenya at the moment, as exploration companies have struck black gold repeatedly in recent times. The latest find was...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
Over 2,715 schools across Nairobi County are set to benefit from free internet connectivity following a move by Wananchi Group, Kenya Education Network (KENET) and the...
A wind of change is sweeping across Kenya’s telecom sector. This is due to reports that Orange Group, the majority owner of Telkom Kenya, just like...
President Uhuru Kenyatta plans to slash public servants’ wages in an effort to allocate more funding to the country’s development. Kenya’s president has ordered a 20...
The African Development Bank will give Kenya $930 million to help boost the country’s employment and economic plan. According to Gabriel Negatu, regional director for AfDB’s...
Traditional mobile money transfer companies in Kenya could be headed for tight competition if other large volume traders are given licences to enter the field. Kenya’s...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto. PHOTO/Billy Mutai Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto are set to take a...
Kenya’s government has lifted a ban that prohibited development within a 10km radius around the country’s future multi-billion dollar Konza technology city. Last year in January,...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has flouted his government’s own ban on posh retreats in luxury hotels after he hauled all his Cabinet secretaries and their principal secretaries...
South Africa’s cloud services market value is expected to grow to $229.69 million in 2014, according to an International Data Corporation’s research report. The IDC’s report...
Kenya’s financial regulator has proposed a separate regulatory framework for Islamic financial institutions as part of a broad ten-year strategy designed to boost capital markets in...
The Kenyan government is in the process of developing an online procurement system to fight tender corruption. The system dubbed ‘Procure to Pay (P2P)’ is scheduled...
Kenya Power said it planned to spend 86 billion shillings in the next three years to upgrade its electricity distribution network in order to keep up...
Kenyan book publisher Longhorn reported a 78 percent increase in its pretax profit for the six months ended in December. The growth was driven by the...
Kenya is setting up three special economic zones that will offer tax breaks to lure global textile firms and help it seize a share of the...
Kenya’s parliament has launched a biometric fingerprint system to register MPs’ attendance. Parliamentary speaker Justin Muturi denied that it was introduced to “curb fraud” and speed...
Kenya’s Central Bank has revealed in a report that a total of KSh1.9 trillion (US$22 billion) was transferred in mobile transactions in the country last year....
The government of South Sudan has released seven of the 11 political detainees whose arrest became a sticking point at peace talks with rebels. The seven...
The year is 2063. By now, all of Europe’s volcanoes have come to life and erupted, spewing out thick plumes of ash into the atmosphere. Dense...
Kenya’s Patrick Makau wins the Rotterdam marathon. April 11 2010. PHOTO/Olaf Kraak/AFP/Getty Images Top Kenyan athletes may consider defecting to other countries if the east African...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall before the terrorist attack. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. (Reuters) – Four men charged with helping al Qaeda-linked militants launch a murderous attack on...
By Tony Elumelu (Reuters) – To Africa’s many challenges, add one more: unemployment. Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that...
By Bitange Ndemo Kenya is a frontrunner in technology and communications, but it must not slacken pace: the next decade will throw up opportunities to succeed...
Image Courtesy of Fatboy Animations – Kenya Companies in Kenya are increasingly turning to locally created 3D content to engage with audiences and lure investors both...
East African integration is moving closer to reality with the signing of the East African Monetary Union Protocol during the Heads of State Summit to be...
(Bloomberg) – When Gbemiga Omotoso bought a Samsung tablet computer last year, he handed over his cash to a man in a van. There was nothing...
Jamaican sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (l) with Usain Bolt IAAF annual athletics awards ceremony November 16 2013. PHOTO/Reuters Jamaican sprint duo Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have...
(Reuters) – When Abasiama Idaresit started a digital marketing firm in Nigeria’s bustling economic capital three years ago, he quickly learned how brutal life can be...
Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai wins the New York City Marathon. PHOTO/Mike Segar/Reuters Geoffrey Mutai successfully defended his title Sunday, while fellow Kenyan Priscah Jeptoo came from behind...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of The Dangote Group Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, plans to spend US$350 million to build a new cement plant in...
Digital Vision EA, a Kenyan technology company has developed a web application that enables investment groups to automate their financial records and systems, from collection to...
Olkaria geothermal power generation plant – Kenya. PHOTO/Nation Media Group (Reuters) – Kenya Power plans to spend 156 billion shillings (US$1.83 billion) over the next 4...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
Liquid Telecom Kenya is entering the voice market in search of a new stream of revenues, reports the Business Daily. The firm will offer fixed-line services...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. PHOTO/File By Stephen Lande & Dennis Matanda | Just like Kenya deftly managed a post-inferno crisis that shut down its international airport...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. A British national has been arrested in Nairobi following the bloody attack on the Westgate shopping mall by the...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
(Reuters) – Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long term investors pull money out after the deadly...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. Kenyan security forces will soon end a Nairobi shopping mall siege, Interior Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku said Monday, with...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants have claimed responsibility for an attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, saying on Twitter...
Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. PHOTO/Westgate Premier Mall Inc. (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 20 people in what Kenya’s...
(Reuters) – African leaders will meet in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, on October 13 to take a common stance on whether to join Kenya’s planned...
(Reuters) – Kenya wants to host a clearing house for China’s yuan currency – a bold African first that would deepen the continent’s ties with Beijing,...
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File Kenya’s fast-growing tech sector, dubbed the Silicon Savannah, already accounts for 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic...
Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto (pictured), pleaded innocent to crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday. As the parties took their...
Kenya’s parliament on Thursday passed a motion to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) just before the country’s deputy president face trial at The Hague...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya is headed to become the first oil exporter in East Africa, moving in...
Usain Bolt. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, already enshrined as one of the greatest Olympians of all time, became the most successful athlete in world championship...
(Reuters) – Kenyan retailer Naivas said on Tuesday that South Africa’s Massmart is seeking to buy a majority stake in the family-owned owned supermarket chain. Massmart,...
(Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are...
Fire fighters working to put out the fire at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. PHOTO/Noor Khamis/Reuters Officials in Kenya said they would reopen the Jomo...
(Reuters) – A fire engulfed Kenya’s main airport on Wednesday, forcing the suspension of international passenger flights and choking a vital travel gateway to east Africa....
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil West Africa’s insurance companies and commercial banks are setting up subsidiaries in East Africa to take advantage of the oil...
Kenya is on the cusp of becoming a direct competitor to China as a major producer of rare earth minerals. Mineral explorer Cortec has announced that...
Imagine a situation where your uncle in a remote village in Africa suddenly does not have to travel one day to reach a bank, only to...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Africa-focused oil company Tullow Oil has made a new oil discovery in Kenya’s Lokichar...
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Kenyans protesting against salary demands of their legislators. PHOTO/Thomas Mukoya/Reuters (Reuters) – Kenyan members of parliament, among the best paid in Africa, have bowed to public...
Kenyan electronic payment firm JamboPay has won a Google innovation award for financial services. The five-year-old company provides a payment service that integrates mobile money and...
Kenyan M-Pesa (mobile money) based transactions topped US$4.9 billion in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by the country’s central bank...
While the U.S. Federal Reserve prints the greenback with what some may refer to as feverish abandon; and much as this may, in negative extremity, lead...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (l) with his deputy William Ruto (r) as he makes his cabinet nominations announcement. PHOTO/Billy Mutai Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta made his...
Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File Kenya gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform...
New Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as Kenya’s president. He replaces Mwai Kibaki, a very successful president, whose second term has...
A weed introduced to Kenya to combat desertification that eventually became a problem invading farmland and damaging farmers’ livelihoods is about to provide the necessary raw...
Kenyan President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Kenya has upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential election victory, Saturday and his defeated rival, Raila Odinga has...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A raft of trickle-down economic policies adopted by East African governments to fight poverty seems to...
(Reuters) – Uganda’s sole state pension fund said on Wednesday it would start investing in Kenyan debt and equities and establish a private equity fund to...
Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s President-Elect Tiger Woods could recapture his Number One Golfer position in two weeks if he wins at Bay Hill; Nelson Mandela has...
Kenyan President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta The Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya has posted complete results showing that Uhuru Kenyatta has prevailed in the country’s presidential elections by...
Uhuru Kenyatta, Potential President-elect, 2013 Between late 2007 and early 2008, when President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of a much contested presidential election, supporters of...
Uhuru Kenyatta on the campaign trail With over 50 percent of the ballots counted, Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate have established a wide lead. The...
Richard Turere. PHOTO/Paula Kahumbu Richard Turere 13, is a young Maasai boy who lives in Kenya’s wilderness, and has been responsible for tending his family’s cattle...
Kenyans choose a new president on Monday in a closely contested election that has divided the east African nation. Kenya has rolled out new technology in...
Pursuant to amendments to the Customs & Excise Duty Act (Kenya) gazetted on 1st February 2012, leading integrated communications service provider Safaricom has effected an upward...
Kenya’s Presidential candidates after the second and final debate. Kenya’s presidential candidates have faced off for a second and final debate ahead of elections on March...
Kenya Presidential front runners, Raila Odinga (l) and Uhuru Kenyatta (r). PHOTO/File As the March 4 election date nears in Kenya, the latest opinion polls have...
Kenya has banned three marathon runners for doping offences, including the first case of an athlete using the banned blood booster EPO, the country’s national athletics...
East African financial institution, the Kenya Commercial Bank has announced another round of layoffs. This comes 2 years after the bank started reducing on staffing costs...
Mocality, a small business listing directory, with a footprint in Kenya and Nigeria will be shutting down operations on February 28. The announcement came via the...
Kenya’s Presidential Candidates The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Kenya has indicated that it will release the final list of eligible voters on Monday...
(Reuters) – Uganda plans to build an inland port on Lake Victoria near its capital Kampala to reduce its near-total dependence on Kenya’s Mombasa, plagued by...
Presidential candidates in Kenya held their first debate on Feb. 11, 2013 in a run up to the presidential elections to be held on March 4,...
Kenya is in the process of holding its first presidential debate between all eight candidates leading up to the March 4 general elections. Incumbent president, Mwai...
(PR Newswire) – IBM today announced that MoDe (mobile decisioning) was named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, MoDe provides instant...
Kenya Presidential front runners, Raila Odinga (l) and Uhuru Kenyatta (r). PHOTO/File Kenya is gearing up for its first presidential debate to be aired live on...
Outgoing Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki East Africa’s largest economy, Kenya, goes to the polls on March 4 to elect a new president, elect new governors, and...
(Reuters) – Kenya and Uganda said on Monday they were looking for a strategic private investment partner to build and operate a pipeline to transport refined...
In a bid to encourage more innovation and entrepreneurship in Kenya, the government has partnered with a local business incubator, Nailab to launch a KSh 140...
Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File Konza technology city – the Kenya version of “Silicon Valley” is to be officially launched on Wednesday January...
Kenya is among African markets considered a favored destination for private equity investments in 2013 while Tanzania and Rwanda will be favorites in East Africa, according...
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki sets on fire an illegal ivory stockpile, July 20, 2011 at the Tsavo National Park. PHOTO/Tony Karumba /AFP/Getty Images (Reuters) – A...
Transactions on Kenya’s latest mobile banking innovation, M-Shwari, crossed the KSh1 billion (US$11.6 million) mark at the close of 2012 in an overwhelming uptake that could...
Traders on the floor of the Nairobi Securities Exchange Annual market performance statistics released by the Nairobi Securities Exchange indicate that the benchmark the Nairobi Securities...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil Uganda and Kenya are both individually expected to introduce new licensing for oil and gas exploration in 2013. Uganda first...
A view of Auckland, New Zealand from Nigeria’s satellite – the NigeriaSat-X Economic Boom Fuels Ghana’s, Nigeria’s, Kenya’s —and Continent’s—dream of building telescopes and satellites to...
Kenyans have contributed 7 percent of total African traffic to the online encyclopaedia – Wikipedia in October 2012. According to data available from the firm, Kenya...
Image/SPIEGEL ONLINE Mobile operators have been ordered to allocate unique numbers, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, to all phones using their network to curb spread of abusive,...
Elementary school children in Ethiopia with their inexpensive OPLC laptops. PHOTO/Petterik Wiggers/PANOS Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results. Teaching at the Amaf school in...
South Africa’s biggest bank, Standard Bank, on Monday said that trade between China and Africa is likely to be over US$200 billion this year. The bank...
The mobile phone has entirely changed the story of banking in Africa. Today a cellular phone is an all-purpose bank account, an Automated banking machine (ABM/ATM)...
James Kwambai (Reuters) – James Kwambai stormed to victory in the Seoul Marathon for the second year running on Sunday, winning by almost five minutes to...
(Reuters) – A union representing workers at Kenya’s main port of Mombasa called off a strike on Friday after the management issued letters of employment to...
Kenya’s Patrick Makau crosses the finish line of the Frankfurt Marathon. PHOTO/AP World record holder Patrick Makau of Kenya won the Frankfurt Marathon in cold and...
Kenyans deposited US$8 billion into mobile money services for the year ending June 2012 – a 38 percent rise that revealed why the country’s government has...
Britain’s High Court ruled Friday that Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau revolution against British colonial rule can proceed with compensation claims against the British government....
The acting police chief in the capital of Kenya (Nairobi), says an explosive device set off in a Sunday school class killed one child and seriously...
A new business hub for African climate technology entrepreneurs was launched in Nairobi (Kenya) this past week to boost locally sourced green technologies in the Africa...
(Reuters) — Kenya’s first offshore gas discovery is encouraging but not large enough for commercial production, the country’s energy minister revealed on Tuesday. Exploration firms Tullow...
The education sector in Kenya is in crisis – operations in public universities were paralysed after employees went on strike to demand higher pay. The staff,...
Teacher in Nairobi, Kenya with his students. PHOTO/File Union organizers say nearly 280,000 teachers in Kenya are staying away from work to demand long overdue pay...
A Uganda air force pilot, is rescued from the wreckage of a helicopter on Mount Kenya. Rescue teams were searching on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 for...
I.B.M. is opening a research center in Nairobi, adding an African lab to its global network. Kenya will be the fourth nation where I.B.M. has opened...
A street in down town Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Kenya’s capital Nairobi is planning to bid for the 2024 Olympics and become the first African...
Artistic Impression of the Konza Techno City. IMAGE/File A two-day Konza Techno City Investors Conference started on Tuesday Aug. 7, with a major announcement regarding which...
Kenya’s David Rudisha at the New York adidas Grand Prix. PHOTO/Samsung Diamond League (Reuters) – The Kenya athletics team at the London Olympics is the best...
The Olkaria II 70MW geothermal power plant in Kenya. PHOTO/File The Energy Generating Company in Kenya (KenGen) is expected to officially launch the construction of the...
Click a few keys, exchange a few numbers, and it’s done. With just a mobile phone and a registration with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile service giant, you...
Kenya has decided to issue fewer work permits to foreign workers in an attempt to boost employment for young Kenyans. Kenya has shut the door on...
Tabitha Karanja – founder and CEO., Keroche Breweries. PHOTO/Daily Nation Tabitha Karanja of Kenya, is an entrepreneur who has dared to “tread only where men walk”....
Wind farm located at the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP)– a 300-megawatt proposal for the northeast part of...
One of the people injured in a grenade attack on a bar in the coastal city of Mombasa is being held as a suspect, police said...
(Reuters) – An explosion hit a night club in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Sunday, killing one person, police said, a day after the U.S....
Kenya is protesting a United States embassy travel advisory that warned of an imminent terror attack on the coastal town of Mombasa, saying the advisory amounts...
Kenya has suspended the recruitment of its citizens to work in the Middle East following rampant cases of abuse. The Foreign Affairs ministry of Kenya, said...
Kenya’s David Rudisha at the New York adidas Grand Prix. PHOTO/Samsung Diamond League World 800m record holder David Rudisha and Olympic 1,500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop...
James Mwangi, CEO, Equity Bank, Kenya. PHOTO/File James Mwangi, the CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank Limited was today named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of...
Kenya Airways, Africa’s third-biggest airline is looking to implement cost-cutting measures affecting staff, procurement, and fuel use. This comes after a sharp rise in its fuel...
Emmanuel Mutai at the 2009 Track and Field – 12th Annual IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Day 8. PHOTO/PR Photos Injury forced Chicago Marathon title-holder...
Kenya continues to invest in modern infrastructure. PHOTO/File Kenya could reach middle income status in the next four years if its current growth rates are sustained,...
Kenya’s internal security minister, who was closely involved in the fight against Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, was killed when the police helicopter he was travelling in...
By Ragnar Gudmundsson In the past, when the global economy weakened, sub-Saharan Africa fared very badly. Not so in recent years. While the global economy spluttered...
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said. He could...
Laban Moiben of Kenya wins the Ottawa marathon. PHOTO/Ottawa Sun/QMI Agency/Tony Caldwell Kenya’s Laban Moiben set a new record Sunday for the Ottawa race weekend marathon...
(Reuters) – Ecobank Kenya has received a US$25 million capital injection from its parent company to help it expand and address the rising cost of financing...
(Reuters) –Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a Lagos-based development financier, is considering potential investments worth US$3 billion across sub-Saharan Africa over the next year, its chief executive...
The green roof garden at the East African Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/AlertNet/Gitonga Njeru By Gitonga Njeru Architects in Kenya are designing buildings with...
Mark Kaigwa speaking at the re:publica gathering in Berlin. PHOTO/File “Africa is writing history for all the right reasons now. The amount of innovation going on...
