16 August 2022
- Coffee, which used to be black gold in Tanzania, is rebound due to rising global demand. According to global agricultural polls, there will be a shortage of
16 August 2022
- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia August 16 — Ethiopia on Monday inaugurated a Chinese-built major road project in the capital Addis Ababa. The Alexander Pushkin Square-Gotera Interchange Road Project, which is a 3.8 km road that incorporates three segments and…
16 August 2022
- Small businesses are what drive the economy of Kenya. Thanks to technology, e-commerce platforms within and without Kenya have enabled the thriving of small businesses by giving them platforms that enable them to reach a wider range of both existing…
16 August 2022
- Kenyan-listed agri-business firm, Kakuzi PLC, has entered into a partnership with Driscoll’s, the world’s leading marketer of berries, to grow the local and
16 August 2022
- What Keynes envisioned was that the taxes would be kept low during a recession because that too would help keep some money in people’s pockets that they can spend.
16 August 2022
- Tanzania Revenue Authority’s (TRA) plans to give tenants a mandate to withhold 10 per cent of house rent in both private and commercial houses to expand the
16 August 2022
- The board of Shelter Afrique has appointed Thierno-Habib Hann as the new chief executive to succeed Mr Andrew Chimphondah who quit suddenly in February.
16 August 2022
- NAIROBI, Kenya August 16 – If you weren’t already aware, there is a trading revolution going on in Africa. Africans are getting more active on the markets, especially on forex, and the reasons for this are as interesting as they are diverse. The…
16 August 2022
- Dennis Situma talks about the rise and rise of Jamdown Shafflas TV, an online music platform that got a massive boost in the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic.
16 August 2022
- Housing development financier Shelter Afrique has announced the appointment of Thierno-Habib Hann as the new Chief Executive Officer to succeed Mr. Andrew
16 August 2022
- School Heads and administrators have encouraged Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha, to organize an urgent meeting due to an impending crisis in the field of education. Kahi Indimuli, the chairman of the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association,…
16 August 2022
- NAIROBI, Kenya August 16 — Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has posted a Sh5.4 billion net profit for the first half of the year, an 11 per cent growth from Sh4.8billion posted in the same period last year. The improved performance was on the back of…
16 August 2022
- Financial services firm, Britam launched, Bima Ya Mwananchi, an affordable inpatient medical cover targeting lower-income families, that can be taken up by a principal member or a member of their family. The new medical cover, allows the policyholder…
16 August 2022
- The mining licences of 470 Tanzanite miners at Mererani have been temporarily revoked over accumulated fees they were supposed to pay to the government.
16 August 2022
- TOPLINE The U.K. has authorized Moderna’s Covid vaccine that targets two different variants of the virus, the nation’s medicines regulator announcedon Monday, a world first as pharma firms adapt to a changed viral landscape and countries prepare to…
16 August 2022
- On Monday, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced William Samoei Ruto as the new president of the Republic of Kenya in one of the general elections that observers have called fair and transparent. William Ruto got 7,176,…
16 August 2022
- Senegal is positioning itself as an alternative source of gas for Europe as Russia cuts supplies of the fuel. Before the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia provided
16 August 2022
- Ethiopian has opened the Dire Dawa Free Trade Zone, the country’s first free trade zone that seeks to enable competition with the global trade system.
16 August 2022
- Jubilee Holdings is set to receive KSh270 million from the sale of a 54.15% stake in its Mauritian subsidiary to insurance giant Allianz SE.
16 August 2022
- The subsidies face an uncertain future as the electioneering period comes to an end, with the politicians now not keen to continue with the government's largesse.
16 August 2022
- Nigeria’s inflation rate jumped from 18.6% in June to to 19.6 % in July, the highest level since September 2005 and more than double the 9% ceiling of the
16 August 2022
- Analysts reckon that uncertainty over the presidential poll results and a possible contest at the Supreme Court will dampen investors’ activity.
16 August 2022
- The stock market recorded limited movement on Monday after closing trading before Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner.
16 August 2022
- The Kenyan diaspora annually contributes hundreds of billions of shillings to national development, but the political economy fails to give voice to this
16 August 2022
- Lobby groups accuse the tobacco industry of pushing a false economic prosperity narrative among farmers, farmers are food insecure compared to peers who ditched the leaf.
16 August 2022
- More than Sh18 billion meant for provision of basic services in marginalised areas has been lying idle at the Treasury for the past nine years.
16 August 2022
- Tyre distributor Sameer Africa has reported a 56.2 percent drop in net profit for the six months to June attributed to increased operating costs.
16 August 2022
- Media houses tallying of the 2022 presidential election played a crucial role in managing what would be an otherwise highly anxious nation.
16 August 2022
- The three-tranche bond, whose sale closes Tuesday, consists of a three-year paper first sold in April 2022, a 10-year offer first floated in 2019.
16 August 2022
- Kenya Re has traditionally depended on the Kenyan market –from which it gets a mandatory 20 percent premiums from primary underwriters.
