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Mobile Money Subscriptions Hit 54 Million as Registered Agents Fall 5.6%

Kenya’s mobile money market continues to expand, but the number of registered physical agents has declined, highlighting a changing landscape for one...

1 month ago · By Benadeta Mwaura

Business

Ruto Challenges Banks to Cut Cost of Credit as High Lending Rates Weigh on Businesses

President William Ruto has challenged Kenya’s banking sector to translate the country’s improved financial stability into cheaper and more accessible...

1 month ago · By Benadeta Mwaura

Agriculture

Gov’t Sets Sights on Tripling Coast Food Production

Kenya is looking to sharply increase agricultural production along the Coast, with the Government targeting five counties for a major expansion of cro...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Kenya

2027 Election Spending Threatens to Widen Kenya’s Budget Deficit

Kenya’s efforts to bring its finances under control are facing a new test: the cost of preparing for the 2027 General Election. S&P Global Ratings exp...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

News

India’s 80th Independence Day Celebrated in Nairobi

The Indian High Commission in Nairobi marked India’s 80th Independence Day on Saturday with a flag-raising ceremony attended by more than 1,200 member...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Business

AGOA Extension Gives Kenya’s Exporters a Fresh Reprieve

Kenyan exporters have been given a fresh lease of life after the United States moved to extend a trade programme that has helped keep thousands of wor...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Africa

Zambia Votes: Can Hichilema Turn Economic Recovery Into a Second Term?

The ballot paper offers Zambians a choice between political camps. But for many voters, the more immediate question is far simpler: Has life actually...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Kenya

Kenya’s Singapore Dream: Can It Really Happen?

Kenya’s ambition to become a wealthy, globally competitive economy on the scale of Singapore is not beyond reach, but it will take decades of steady e...

2 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Kenya

Kindiki Says Kenya Can Join World’s Wealthy Nations

Kenya can become one of the world’s wealthy and developed nations, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki said on Wednesday, but only if the country can mai...

3 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Kenya

President Ruto Opens National Conversation on Kenya’s Future Beyond Vision 2030

President William Ruto today Wednesday, opened a nationwide discussion on what Kenya should look like after 2030, as the country prepares to move beyo...

3 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Kenya

President Ruto’s Naivasha Retreat Puts Kenya’s Post-2030 Future in Focus

Kenya’s political leadership has gathered in Naivasha for a retreat that comes at a significant moment for the country: the final stretch of Vision 20...

3 months ago · By Cecelia Dana

Business

Gold Rush Turns Remote Turkana Villages into Bustling Trade Centers

For years, this corner of Turkana County was known for little more than scattered manyattas, harsh terrain and long journeys between settlements. Toda...

3 months ago · By Cecelia Dana