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Kenya’s economy seen resilient to mall attack, tourism apart Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long-term investors pull money out after the deadly attack on a Nairob...

Uganda beefs up security as al-shabaab attack in Kenya enters 3rd day Ugandan police have beefed up security at supermarkets and public places in the capital Kampala and other towns following the terrorist attack in neig...

Kenyan troops storm mall to break Al-shabaab siege The death toll, as a siege by armed members of a Somali islamist group at a Nairobi shopping mall in Kenya enters its third day, has reached 69.

Nairobi’s Governor, a Mtaa boy made good Suddenly in charge of a $20bn economy after his election as Nairobi’s governor in March of this year, Evans Odhiambo Kidero has hit the ground running...

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Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
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Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
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Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...

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© Worker cleaning Kenya’s court of arms at Treasury Building during the budget reading 2020/2021./SOPAIMAGES

More or less borrowing?

Premium badgeFive questions on Kenya’s new debt policy As Kenya prepares to table the final budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning next July, there are adjacent hasty plans to get parliament to chan...
© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
© Sami Mainich (photo: supplied)

‘Africa led by Africans’

Premium badgeDow’s Sami Mainich places trust in African talents Since being appointed president of Dow’s Africa operations in late February, Sami Mainich has been on the lookout for partnership opportunities across...

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Kenya’s devolution revolution The constitution approved in 2010 created 47 new counties that elected officials at the 4 March national elections. The county governments will have t...

Guarding the formula to uproot conflict Overall, in Africa, post-conflict countries are trying hard to deliver peace dividends – jobs, peace, freedom, democracy and rule of law. The transiti...

Kenyan shilling firms slightly, stocks down The Kenyan shilling was a touch firmer on Monday, with traders awaiting a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting this week which is seen scaling back a stimulus...

Kenya’s Safaricom warns against more tax rises on money transfers Kenya’s leading mobile phone operator Safaricom cautioned the government against further rises in excise duty on mobile money transfers, saying there ...

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Landlocked Uganda gets car port in Mombassa Kenya Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned a car port, Container Freight Station Ltd, at Kenya’s main seaport of Mombasa, with a capacity of h...