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Kenya

Big spender

Kenya’s increasingly vulnerable credit profile

Kenya is working towards reducing government debt through fiscal consolidation, and a eurobond issuance, allowing it space to deal with growing ... liquidity problems, according to credit ratings agency Moody’s.

hot water

Kenya finance minister arrest shines light on infrastructure debt

Kenya’s Finance minister and several top officials were arrested in Nairobi on Monday as investigations into two failed dam projects culminated ... in the most high-profile indictments in recent history.

Trading floor

Nairobi regulators crack down on insider trading

Kenya’s capital markets regulator fined three stockbrokers and suspended them for one and three years, in a high-profile insider trading case ... that threatened to derail the takeover of a listed oil company.

out for the count

Kenya’s first paperless census will shift political boundaries

Kenya's eighth population census, happening in just over a month, will significantly alter electoral boundaries, inform the referendum question ... and shape the next elections.

faking it

Kenyan fake murder plot threatens Ruto in more ways than one

Kenya has been wrapped up in a case of political skullduggery after President Uhuru Kenyatta went so far as to call the FBI over a disturbing ... letter hinting at a murder plot against deputy president William Ruto.

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Headline grabbing

The New York Times shows how not to write an Africa job advert

In case you missed it, the New York Times (NYT) found itself in trouble (yet again) with Kenyans online last week. ...

boda boda blues

African cities grapple with two-wheeled transport conundrum

Last weekend, Addis Ababa joined a growing list of African cities that have banned motorcycles. ...

Food focused

Kenya’s Twiga Foods goes bananas on the Nairobi market

“Why does a banana cost more in Nairobi than it does in London?” asks Peter Njonjo, recently appointed as chief executive officer of Twiga ... Foods.

Sad farewell

Jazz-loving CEO of Kenya’s Safaricom dies of cancer

Bob Collymore, the highly successful, jazz-loving CEO of Safaricom, died of cancer on Monday, 1 July 2019. He was 61 years old. ...

The last mile

Ethanol for cooking can help reduce Africa’s energy poverty

Electrification is often seen as the key threshold in tackling poverty in Africa, but a start-up in Nairobi is challenging that assumption by ... distributing ethanol as fuel for cooking.

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