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KRA's Digital Cargo Insurance Goes Live: What Hardware Importers and E-commerce Merchants Need to Know
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) began enforcing mandatory digital marine cargo insurance on Novemb...
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KRA and Safaricom Plan M-Pesa-Issued eTIMS Invoices for Small Traders on Till and Paybill
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Safaricom are in talks to let M-Pesa generate electronic tax i...
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KenGen Names Ronoh Kibet CEO as Geothermal Consultancy and Olkaria Data Centre Plans Take Centre Stage
Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has appointed Ronoh Kibet Charles, its General Man...
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Safaricom Launches Fuliza Ya Pochi, Opening Overdraft Credit to Over One Million Small Merchants
Safaricom has launched Fuliza Ya Pochi, an overdraft facility that lets qualifying Pochi La Biashara...
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Airtel Money’s $7 Billion London Listing Forces Valuation Reckoning for East African Fintech
Airtel Money has formally set the pricing for its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchan...
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Senate Committee Rejects Kenya's AI Bill, Saying It Would Regulate Too Much, Too Soon
A Senate committee has recommended that the Senate abandon the Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026, c...
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KRA Misses First-Quarter Revenue Target by Sh58.2 Billion as Deficit Runs Almost Double Treasury Projection
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) fell Sh58.2 billion short of its ordinary revenue target in the fi...
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Microsoft to Close Nairobi Africa Development Centre as Hundreds of Engineering Jobs Hang in the Balance
Microsoft has told staff at its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi that the engineering oper...
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DCI Warns Over Flashy Forex and Crypto Influencers as Investment Scams Climb in Kenya
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has warned Kenyans that the cash stacks, hired luxu...
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Quickmart Plans NSE Listing: Owners to Sell Half the Supermarket Chain, With No Cash for the Retailer
Quickmart PLC, Kenya's second-largest supermarket chain, has announced plans to list on the Nairobi ...
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EPRA Scraps 15,000 kWh Cap on Kenya's KES 16 EV Charging Tariff
Kenya's Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has removed the 15,000 kilowatt-hour (kWh) ...
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Avocado Exporter Karakuta Files for NSE Listing as Exports Fall 60% and Market Posts Record Loss
Karakuta Fresh Produce, a Juja-based exporter of Hass and Fuerte avocados and fresh herbs, has appli...
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High Court Voids Safaricom's 15% Stake Sale to Vodacom, Reopening Kenya's Biggest Privatisation Deal
Kenya's High Court has nullified the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom PLC to Vod...
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Murkomen Names Google AI Executive, Zetech Don to Cybersecurity Agency Board
Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has appointed Lorna A. Omo...
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Twiga Foods' Core Operating Entity Enters Statutory Administration After Years of Creditor Pressure
GT Flow Limited, the operating entity formerly known as Twiga Foods One Limited, has been placed und...
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Airtel Africa Winds Up Kenyan Wholesale Fibre Unit After Two Years of Zero Revenue
Airtel Africa has begun the formal liquidation of Airtel Kenya Telesonic Limited, the wholesale fibr...
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Google Rushes Out Chrome Patch After Hackers Exploit V8 Engine Flaw
Google has shipped an emergency security update for the desktop version of Chrome after confirming t...
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Uber's African Retreat Deepens as Nigeria and Uganda Exits Coincide With Global Job Cuts
Uber Technologies has shut down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria and Uganda, effective Septemb...
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CA Proposes Six-Month Grace Period Before Telcos Can Recycle Dormant SIM Cards
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has published draft procedural and technical safeguards g...
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Nairobi's Chapati Machine Finally Arrived. Here's What 2,000 an Hour Actually Means
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja unveiled a chapati-making machine at Toi Primary Kitchen in Kibra th...
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