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The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Lending: How Mobile Loan Apps Are Making and Breaking Kenya's Small Businesses
The scale of Kenya's digital lending ecosystem is staggering. As of April 2026, the Central Bank of ...
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Kenya Has the Most Expensive Diesel in East Africa. Here Is Why, and Who Is Responsible.
Following EPRA's latest review, which took effect on May 15, 2026, super petrol in Nairobi now retai...
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Kenya's AI Bill Says You Must Be Told When You Are Talking to a Chatbot. Here Is What It Actually Proposes.
If you have ever chatted with a customer service bot on a Kenyan bank's website without knowing it w...
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Kenya's Data Regulator Has Officially Opened an Investigation Into Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses. Here Is What Happens Next.
On March 31, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner confirmed in a formal letter that it has...
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Will Cheap Smartphones Vanish From Kenya? Breaking Down the CA's New Mobile Device Rules.
The Communications Authority issued a public notice yesterday ( March 24, 2026) announcing updated T...
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KRA Wants to Charge VAT on Every Business in Kenya — Including Your Mama Mboga. Here Is What That Actually Means.
KRA argues the move will help Kenya increase VAT revenues from the current Ksh 653 billion to over K...
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Is Your Next Smartphone About to Get Pricier? Breaking Down the CA's Proposed ICT Import Fees.
Kenya's Communications Authority wants to charge importers a fee every time they bring ICT equipment...
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Algorithms vs. Acts: Can Kenya's New National Taxi Policy Actually Fix the Price Wars?
For the past decade, the price of a ride from Westlands to the CBD has been set not by any governmen...
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The 5% Meta Withheld From Your Payout Is Not Your Final Tax Bill. Here Is What Kenyan Creators Actually Owe.
Since January 2026, Meta has been deducting 5% from every payout to Kenyan content creators before t...
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eTIMS Compliance Is Not Failing Because Kenyans Are Technophobic. It Is Failing Because KRA Built a Walled Garden.
Every few weeks, another business owner posts on Twitter about being penalised for an eTIMS violatio...
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Nairobi Is Watching Your Bedroom. And Meta Knew.
A joint investigation published February 27 by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Po...
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M-Pesa Is Hiding Your Phone Number From Merchants. Here Is Everything That Changes, And What Nobody Has Answered Yet.
For 18 years, paying with M-Pesa at a till or paybill meant handing over two things: your money and ...
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Cross-Network Calls Got Cheaper Today. Here Is the Full Story Behind the Rate Cut, and Why It Does Not Go Far Enough.
Starting today, the fee that Safaricom pays Airtel every time one of its customers calls an Airtel n...
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Kenya Lost Ksh 29.9 Billion to Cybercrime Last Year. AI Is About to Make That Number Much Worse.
Between December 2025 and January 2026, a single unknown person used a consumer AI chatbot to system...
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290 Offices, One ID: How a Single Law Just Fixed the Biggest Bottleneck in Kenya's Digital Identity System
On February 19, 2026, President William Ruto signed a bill into law that received almost no coverage...
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The M-Pesa Trap: How Safaricom's Security Is Failing Kenya's Most Vulnerable Customers
Picture this. A bedridden elderly woman in Nairobi cannot move from her bed. She needs money for med...
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AI Companies Want It Both Ways on Copyright — And African Content Creators Are Caught in the Middle
Yesterday, Anthropic published a detailed post exposing what it called "industrial-scale" theft by t...
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The NSE Wants to Be a Tech Exchange. It Has Tried This Before.
Why the Nairobi Securities Exchange is struggling to court the Silicon Savannah. We analyze the prop...
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Cloudflare Introduces Markdown for AI Agents: A Quiet Revolution with Major Implications for Publishers
How a simple content format change could reshape web economics — and why Kenyan tech publishers shou...
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The Agentic AI Problem Nobody is Solving: Who Protects the Victims?
If you're a website owner, a service provider, or just someone whose data gets caught in an agent's ...
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