- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Drumvale Farmers Co-operative Society Ltd (DFCSL) has appealed to Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to take swift action against persistent threats and attacks targeting its staff and property, which it links to a protracted land dispute. In a letter through James…
- JULY 28 – Donald Trump has agreed a trade deal with the EU Commission president after he played a round of golf on the second full day of his visit to Scotland. The US president shook hands on the deal with Ursula von der Leyen at his luxury Turnberry resort, saying: “It’s going to bring […]
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 28 – Chinese investment in Kenya’s Tatu City Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has surpassed Sh51.5 billion, with seven companies operating across key sectors including healthcare, construction, and manufacturing. The firms, which include FullCare Medical SEZ, Tianlong Cylinder…
- JULY 27 – Hackers have stolen personal information of a majority of insurance firm Allianz Life’s 1.4 million customers in North America, its parent company said. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life Insurance…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 27 – Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Customs officers have intercepted 41 sachets of suspected narcotics at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) during a routine baggage scan of luggage from a Bangkok flight. The discovery was made after two suspicious suitcases were…
- By Mike Macharia JULY 26 – For decades, Kenya’s tourism industry has depended largely on visitors from traditional markets such as the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany. But global travel patterns are changing. Today, Kenya is seeing more tourists from China, India, the Gulf States,…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 26 – Leaders from the Gabra community have strongly dismissed objections raised against the Marsabit Wind Power Project in Gas, terming them misleading and an attempt to derail a project with direct benefits to the local population. In a letter addressed to the Kenya…
- JULY 26 – Garbage bags overflowing in dumpsters. Flies buzzing in the air. Malodorous fumes wafting in the summer sun – an unsightly mess is plaguing American cities from coast to coast this summer. Some employees of Republic Services – a Fortune 500 private waste-management company with municipal…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 26 – Stanley Kamanguya has returned to office as the Chief Executive Officer of the ICT Authority following a court order that reinstated him and blocked his removal by the agency’s Board. Kamanguya resumed duties on Friday, a day after Employment and Labour Relations Court…
- JULY 26 – US President Donald Trump has said he does not expect to reach a trade deal with Canada, after he gave the country a deadline of 1 August to carve out an agreement. “We haven’t really had a lot of luck with Canada,” Trump told reporters ahead of his trip to Scotland on […]
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 26 – Chicken Cottage has opened a new branch in Kasarani, Nairobi, marking its eighth outlet in the country and the 16th store operated by Express Kitchen Ltd. The new branch, located at a Hass Petroleum station along Kasarani-Mwiki Road, is expected to serve over 800,000…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – A Norwegian businessman, John B. Solheim, has moved to the High Court in Nairobi seeking to recover over $403,000 (Sh52 million) he claims to have deposited into the account of a Kenyan advocate, Dennis Onyango, for undisclosed business purposes that never materialised.…
- JULY 25 – US President Donald Trump has spent months attacking the head of the US central bank on social media and in remarks to reporters, calling Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell names like “numbskull”. On Thursday, the dispute played out in person, with cameras rolling, as the two men…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula says Kenya must be stabilized economically including through diaspora forex exchange. Speaking today during the Women Empowerment forum at the Nyamache grounds organized by the County Women MP, Dorice Donya in Kisii County, the…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – The Court of Appeal has granted the Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi more time to file an application seeking the Supreme Court’s permission to challenge a ruling on diplomatic immunity. Justice Daniel Musinga issued the ruling in a longstanding case involving two former…
- BERLIN, July 24 (Xinhua) — U.S. chipmaker Intel announced on Thursday that it has abandoned its plan to construct a large-scale semiconductor facility in Germany, citing ongoing efforts to streamline its global production operations. The move brings a definitive end to the project that had been…
- By Prateek Suri NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – In a bold new statement, Prateek Suri, Founder of Maser Group, asserts that the next wave of global leadership will emerge not from traditional powerhouses like Silicon Valley or London, but from the slums of Nairobi, the towns of Uganda, the villages of…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Safaricom has announced it has surpassed 50 million customers in Kenya ahead of the telco’s silver jubilee in October this year. The company attributes the milestone to a year-long customer engagement campaign that brought services, rewards, and experiences closer to users…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – Kenya’s power consumption hit a new peak of 2,362.28 megawatts (MW) on July 23, 2025, eclipsing the previous high of 2,325.23MW in February this year. The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) attributes this to industrial expansion, increased urbanisation, and…
- JULY 25 – An $8bn (£5.9bn) merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media has been approved by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The merger between the independent film studio and one of Hollywood’s oldest and most storied companies was first announced in 2024. The approval came…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – Over 2,000 cancer patients across Kenya are set to benefit from a KSh 1.5 million donation by the THX22 Foundation to the Needy Cancer Health Initiative (NCHI), a grassroots organisation supporting vulnerable patients facing access and affordability challenges. The funds…
- JULY 25 – French firm Fermentalg has been all over the planet in its search for useful microalgae. “One of our lucky scientists got to go and climb the volcanoes in the Caribbean for example, and I have to restrain myself from collecting more every time I go home to New Zealand,” says Hywel…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – Packaging firm Shri Krishana Overseas (SKL) Ltd hopes to raise capital after its shares started trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). Yesterday, the firm listed 50.5 million ordinary shares at an offer price of Sh5.9 under NSE’s Small and Medium Enterprises (…
- NAIROBI, July 25 (Xinhua) — Chinese heavy-duty truck manufacturer Sinotruk on Thursday launched its H2 light-duty truck and H3 medium-duty truck models in Kenya, with CFAO Mobility as a local distributor. Sarfraz Premji, CFAO Mobility general manager for Sinotruk, told journalists in Nairobi, the…
- JULY 25 – Donald Trump is set to make the first visit by a sitting president to the US central bank in roughly two decades as his pressure on the Federal Reserve intensifies. Trump will tour buildings undergoing a $2.5bn (£1.8bn) renovation, which the White House has accused Fed chairman Jerome…
- NAROK, Kenya, July 25 (Xinhua) — Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday that the government will intensify a campaign to boost tourist numbers in the country. Ruto, who opened the 2025 Great Wildebeest Migration global livestreaming at the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve in…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 25 – As Kenya’s youth face challenges ranging from literacy gaps to climate disruptions, there is growing urgency to equip them with more than just academic qualifications. They need practical skills, strong communities, and healthy foundations to navigate an evolving world.…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Kenya’s film and creative sector is set to gain from the upcoming Africa Film Finance Forum (AFFF), which returns this September in Lagos, Nigeria, with an ambitious goal of unlocking a $20 billion Pan-African film economy. Scheduled for September 16–18, the forum will…
- JULY 24 – A summit between China and the European Union (EU) has kicked off in Beijing on Thursday, with leaders set to discuss issues ranging from trade conflict to the war in Ukraine. Expectations have been tempered however by uncertainty over global trade, politics and the attendance of Chinese…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Individuals and entities with incomplete business registration applications are facing removal from the Business Registration Service (BRS) platform if they fail to regularise themselves. It targets those with draft applications that were never submitted between 2017 and…
- JULY 24 – Columbia University has agreed to pay $200m (£147m) to President Donald Trump’s administration over accusations it failed to protect its Jewish students. The settlement, which will be paid to the federal government over three years, was announced in a statement by the university and…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – The Kenyan passport has slipped two positions in the latest Henley Passport Index, dropping to 69th globally from 67th last year. According to the report by London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners, Kenyan passport holders can now…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has unveiled a revised version of its Risk-Based Credit Pricing Model (RBCPM), making sweeping changes to how banks determine lending rates following feedback from the financial sector. These include the adoption of the Interbank Rate…
- JULY 24 – Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an appeal. The women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin in 2020 – an…
- JULY 24 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the UK to sign a free trade deal expected to lead to a multi-billion pound boost in exports. UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK under the agreement, which also […]
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – SBM Bank Kenya’s gross profit grew to Sh202 million in the first half of this year, buoyed by improved operating income. This represents a bounce back from a loss of Sh943 million during the same period last year. In H1, its operating revenue jumped by 65 percent to Sh2.8…
- VLADIVOSTOK, July 24 (Xinhua) — Debris of a passenger plane that went missing on Thursday was discovered in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur Region, with no survivors reported, said local emergency services. The An-24 aircraft, operated by Angara Airlines, was en route from Khabarovsk to Tynda with a…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – President William Ruto has set a target for the initial public offering (IPO) of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), stating that shares will debut on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) by September 2025. Ruto, speaking at the NSE bell-ringing ceremony yesterday,…
- JULY 24 – Australia will lift restrictions on the import of beef from the US, a trade barrier which had angered the Trump administration. American beef has effectively been banned from the country – which has some of the strictest biosecurity laws in the world – since 2003 after an outbreak of mad…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 24 – Detached house prices in Nairobi’s suburb areas grew the fastest in Q2 of this year, buoyed by low supply. Latest House Price Index from HassConsult, a realtor, shows that detached house prices in Muthaiga, Karen, Runda, and Lavington in Q2 grew by 3.5 percent, 2.5 percent…
- JULY 24 – Tesla has said it will build cheaper cars and win approval for its self-driving software in Europe this year, as it tries to revive its struggling business. Elon Musk’s electric car firm told investors it had started “first builds of a more affordable model in June” while posting a slump…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 23 – Airbus has opened a customer support centre in Johannesburg to serve airlines operating its commercial aircraft across Africa. The facility will offer services including technical support, maintenance, training, and performance analysis for Airbus models such as the A220,…
- JULY 23 – President Donald Trump says the US has agreed to a “massive” trade deal with Japan, one of the country’s largest trading partners. Japan has agreed to invest $550bn (£407bn) in the US while its goods sold to America would be taxed at 15% when they reach the country – below the 25% […]
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 23 – The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has called on member states to strengthen regional trade ties and accelerate the adoption of trade facilitation tools in response to rising global trade disruptions and new tariff measures. Speaking at the…
- NEW DELHI, July 23 (Xinhua) — The Indian government has confirmed that its citizens lost over 2.64 billion U.S. dollars in cyber fraud cases in 2024. The information was presented by federal junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday in the lower house of the Indian parliament, locally…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 23 – Land prices in Nairobi’s satellite towns such as Kiserian, Thika, and Juja cooled off in quarter two (Q2) of this year amid apartment oversupply and stagnant rental prices. Realtor HassConsult Q2 Land Price Index shows an acre of land in Kiserian grew by 2.8 percent to…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 23 – Kenya’s miraa (khat) farmers and exporters have received a major boost following the clearance of the stimulant crop for export to Djibouti. The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), in a statement Wednesday, disclosed that trade negotiations between the two countries have…
- JULY 23 – Heathrow’s boss has said it was “frustrating” he slept through numerous emergency phone calls following a fire in March that led to the airport’s closure and the cancellation of 1,300 flights. Discussing the blaze at a nearby electrical substation which disrupted flights for 270,000…
- NAIROBI, Kenya, July 23 – The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has announced plans to upgrade runways at the Wilson Airport in Nairobi. The rehabilitation exercise aims to meet current and expected travel demands, KAA Board Chairman Caleb Kositany said. “We are focused on delivering infrastructure…
- DAR ES SALAAM, July 23 (Xinhua) — With an estimated 139 million tonnes of uranium deposits and a projected mine life of 22 years, Tanzania is poised to secure its place among the top 10 global producers of uranium, said Minister for Minerals Anthony Mavunde on Tuesday. Mavunde made the remarks…
