- KFC and other multinational restaurant chains will in coming years be barred from importing pre-sliced potatoes in a policy shift aimed at boosting local capacity of farmers to supply...
- British troops who commit crimes while training in Kenya will be put on trial in Kenya after lawmakers amended a defence cooperation pact between Nairobi and London.
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that the size of Kenya’s economy will overtake that of Angola this year even as Ethiopia stretches its lead.
- Car Importers Association of Kenya Chairman Peter Otieno says the rule has put importers at a disadvantage as their vehicles take several months before they can be sold in a market where buyers...
- The Kenyan government has been sued for increasing water bills and commercialising water and sanitation services without consulting Kenyans by conducting public participation forums.
- Companies will from next month pay an interest penalty equal to the Central Bank of Kenya lending rate if they fail to remit or match contributions of their workers to the National Health...
- Kenya is seeking a Sh38.3 billion loan from China to expand Kiambu Road into a dual carriageway to ease the heavy traffic congestion along the 25-kilometre stretch currently dominated by car yards.
- Multimedia University of Kenya is asking unpaid lecturers to swap debts of millions of shillings in salary arrears — some running as far back as five years — with school fees of their kin at the...
- Data show remittances from South Africa plunged to $17.46 million in the year to February compared to $228.68 million in a similar period three years ago.
- The apathy in the bond market amid a cash crunch that has seen payment of civil service salaries delayed sends a clear signal on the state of investor confidence in the economy.
- A majority of listed banks in Kenya remain undervalued by investors in the stock market relative to their net asset value, despite reporting record profits in a tough economy.
- CBK has boosted large value transactions represented by the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System (KEPSS) by migrating the platform to new global standards.
- When Margaret Munene started keeping dairy cows to supply her household with adequate milk. Within no time, the herd grew that she had more than enough.
- Kenya plans to scrap the 100ml liquid cap on hand luggage for travellers AT its airports in line with an ongoing global shift, giving passengers a major relief.
- The recent visit to Belgium by President William Ruto has fuelled biotechnology (biotech) investments and knowledge transfer to Kenya, especially in medicine.
- KCB Group has appointed Annastacia Kimtai as the managing director of KCB Bank Kenya, marking the first time the Kenyan unit will have a separate boss.
- AFC says the new model will slash imports of food, increase local output and spur economic growth in the sector that has over the years been underfunded.
- The entrepreneur started Osho Chemicals Industries in Industrial Area, 30 years ago after quitting his job. He invested Sh2 million from his savings.
- The Executive appears to be flip-flopping on its spending priorities, undermining its own austerity plan amid a cash squeeze that has seen civil servants' salaries delayed.
- AfDB has closed a case filed against the Chinese firm dualling Kenol-Sagana-Marua Road, averting further delays in the completion of the Sh16.7 billion project.
- Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (saccos) are in line for a Sh5.54 billion cheque as their holding company proposes to distribute nearly all the dividends earned from Co-operative Bank of...
- How far would you travel for a good meal? The BDLife recently wafted 90 kilometres southwest of Nairobi into the southern Great Rift Valley famous for being the host of the pre-historic site of...
- This was a $9 million (Sh1.2 billion) increment from the $78.8 million (Sh10.6 billion) booked in 2020 which in turn was a rise from $72.7 million (Sh9.7 billion) recorded in 2019.
- In the just-released World Economic Outlook, IMF now projects that Kenya will grow at a rate of 5.3 percent in 2023 from 5.1 percent forecasted in October 2022.
- TUK wants funding for universities to be disbursed per student’s name, as opposed to the bulk method to address cash flow challenges plaguing institutions of higher learning.
- The government has granted Kenya Airways (KQ) a 12-month break on servicing Sh41.27 billion worth of loans, offering a reprieve to the airline that had defaulted on payments.
- Only one in four Treasury bonds offered this year have met their target, with the latest issue raising a measly Sh3.57 billion against a target of Sh20 billion.
- As Charles III is crowned, in less than a month, as the new king of the UK, Australia, Canada and 12 other commonwealth nations, he has introduced a sea-change in the monarchy’s values.
- BAT Kenya has pegged local production at its Sh1.5 billion oral nicotine pouches factory on “less stringent” regulatory and taxation framework for the new category products.
- The Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed fund has disclosed in its latest annual report that a dispute with the group of 13 investors was settled last month.