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KRA's New Cargo Declaration Rule Kicks In Today, With Blockchain Overhaul Waiting in the Wings
Kenya's ports entered a new regulatory regime on Monday, August 3, 2026, as the Kenya Revenue Author...
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Kenyan Freelancers Turn To Stablecoins And Direct Wallets As PayPal Freezes Squeeze Gig Income
Kenyan freelancers who built their livelihoods around PayPal are confronting a payments crisis. Sinc...
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Visa Names Anne Kinuthia-Otieno as Head of East Africa, Days After Airtel Money Exit
Visa has appointed Anne Kinuthia-Otieno as its new Vice President and Head of East Africa, effective...
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Treasury Cuts Capital Requirements for Crypto Firms by Up to 40% After Industry Pressure
Kenya's National Treasury has slashed the minimum capital crypto firms need to operate legally in th...
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Airtel Money Kenya Loses the MD Who Took It From Also-Ran to Real Rival
Anne Kinuthia-Otieno has stepped down as Managing Director of Airtel Money Kenya, closing out nearly...
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Google Now Lets You Recover Your Account With a Selfie Video
Google has added a new way into locked accounts: a short selfie video that stands in for a password ...
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Kenya Now Requires a One-Year Warranty on Every Phone and Laptop Sold, With Fines of at Least Sh500,000 for Vendors Who Skip It
Under new rules from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), every mobile phone, tablet, and lap...
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Ruto Promises Free University Education for All — But the Bill Isn't Law, and the Timing Isn't Neutral
President William Ruto announced on July 21, 2026, that every student admitted to a public universit...
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BasiGo and Rubis Energy Kenya Take EV Charging Beyond Nairobi
Kenya's electric vehicle infrastructure has been almost entirely confined to the capital since the i...
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SCRYPT Brings Direct Shilling-to-Stablecoin Settlement to Kenya
Kenyan businesses that trade internationally have long faced the same bottleneck: to pay a supplier ...
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Uber Is Buying Glovo's Parent Company. In Kenya, That Means One Firm Could Soon Own Two of the Three Biggest Delivery Apps
Uber has agreed to acquire German food-delivery group Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion, a deal that w...
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Devolving AI: Inside Microsoft and Stanbic's Push to Move Tech Skills Beyond Nairobi
The two organisations, working alongside Konza Technopolis and Pathways Technologies, have expanded ...
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Kenya's Ride-Hailing Shake-Up: What a KES 500 Minimum Fare Could Really Mean for Drivers and Passengers
The Ministry of Roads and Transport, through the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), is ...
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One Agency to Rule Them All: What the Kenya Intellectual Property Authority Bill Means for Tech Founders
If you have ever tried to protect a piece of software in Kenya, you already know the drill. You regi...
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Kenya's New Courier-Hailing Licence: Who Really Pays When Uber, Bolt, and Glovo Get a Bigger Bill?
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revised the country's Postal and Courier Market Struc...
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Kenya's New Internet Metering Bill: Fair Billing or a Backdoor to Surveillance?
Imagine paying for your internet the same way you pay for electricity. No more flat-rate bundles, no...
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Google Just Put $1 Million on Africa's Game Developers. Here's What It Means and Whether They Can Actually Compete
On July 3, 2026, Google announced its first Google Play Indie Games Fund for Africa, a $1 million co...
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Kenya Cracks Down on Mobile Money Reversal Refusals: What You Need to Know
Kenya's Interior Ministry has launched a fresh push to strengthen the recovery process for money sen...
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Family Bank's NSE Debut: What Actually Happened and What It Means for Investors Now
Family Bank made a strong entrance onto the NSE on June 23, with its shares closing 44.4% above the ...
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Kenya Says It Makes 1 Million Smartphones a Year. But Are They Actually Made for Kenyans?
The first is East Africa Device Assembly Kenya (EADAK), a joint venture between Safaricom, Jamii Tel...
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