18 February 2025
- FEB 18 – Argentine President Javier Milei is facing impeachment calls – and legal action accusing him of fraud – over his promotion of cryptocurrency on social media. Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $LIBRA coin on Friday, which he…
18 February 2025
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18 – The government has published new graphic warning signs for printing on cigarette packets to create awareness of their health effects. Under Section 21(4) of the Tobacco Control Act, tobacco products are required to have…
18 February 2025
- Russia which has established numerous energy deals with over a dozen African countries, is now in talks with Nigeria about a nuclear partnership.
18 February 2025
- A billion-dollar expansion of Africa’s most important US-backed critical minerals project is now caught in limbo, due to a foreign-aid freeze under the Trump administration.
18 February 2025
- Everstrong Capital is seeking to raise Ksh129.2 billion from Kenya’s pension funds to finance the Usahihi Expressway, a 440-kilometre dual carriageway connecting Nairobi and Mombasa, as part of a $3.5 billion (about Ksh455 billion) project.
18 February 2025
- The business world is dominated by those willing to take risks, and the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote seems very familiar with this concept, as the Dangote refinery has had to contend with what he refers to as the “oil mafia”.
18 February 2025
- NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18 – All transporters of sand in the country will be required to obtain licenses in order to operate. This is after the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) announced the commencement of the 2024 Sand Harvesting…
18 February 2025
- FEB 18 – Meta has announced plans to build a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable across the world. The tech giant said Project Waterworth – connecting the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions – will be the world’s longest underwater…
18 February 2025
- The managing director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute, WANJIRA MATHAI has led the green belt movement in Kenya as the former chair, the organization her mother, the late Wangari Maathai founded in 1977. From…
18 February 2025
- MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18 — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday warned search engine Google in a second letter that her government will take legal action unless the company reinstates the name of the Gulf of Mexico on its maps. Google does not…
18 February 2025
- NAIROBI, Kenya – British American Tobacco (BAT) Kenya has strongly dismissed allegations of financial discrepancies in a report by The Investigative Desk, titled Missing Millions: A Cross Examination of British American Tobacco Kenya’s Tax Bill,…
18 February 2025
- Malava MP Moses Malulu Injendi, who died Monday at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, had lost his elder brother Samuel Injendi just a day before. Samuel died while undergoing...
18 February 2025
- Deepseek R1 has joined the competition against larger, billionaire-backed AI companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Anthropic.
17 February 2025
- Only Sh86 billion is available for scholarships, loans, and capitation against a requirement of Sh145 billion in the financial period to June.
