🇰🇪 Roads dominate development budget in Treasury estimates
President William Ruto's administration is doubling down on infrastructure delivery, with roads commanding a dominant 21% share of Kenya's development...
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🇰🇪 Anonymous tip-offs drive Sh6.8bn KRA tax haul, expose graft
Kenya's tax authority has quietly engineered a sharp uptick in revenue recovery by leveraging anonymous whistleblower disclosures, netting Sh6.8 billi...
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🇰🇪 East Africa’s Top Companies ’25: Slow and steady progress
East Africa's corporate landscape in 2025 reflects a region in transition. While the continent's largest economies—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiop...
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🇰🇪 Isuzu tops Kenya vehicle sales with 2,036 units in Q1
Kenya's automotive market revealed a clear hierarchy in the first quarter of 2025, with Isuzu establishing dominant market control through distributor...
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🇰🇪 Centum, KCB launch 8.9pc fixed-rate mortgage deal
Kenya's residential property market is experiencing a structural shift as Centum Investment Company and KCB Bank jointly introduce an 8.9% fixed-rate ...
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🇰🇪 Kenya: Social Media Overtakes TV, Radio As Top News Source
Kenya's media landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. According to the Media Council of Kenya, social media has officially become the primary news so...
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🇰🇪 Kenya: How Electoral Violence Continues to Disrupt Kenyan
Kenya's electoral cycle has become synonymous with economic disruption. Since the contested 2007 presidential election—which triggered weeks of commun...
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🇰🇪 ** Kenya-Somalia Border Reopening: Duale's Plan to Unlock
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has become the highest-ranking Kenyan official to publicly endorse reopening the Kenya-Somalia border, positioning...
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🇰🇪 Kenyan tea exports to Russia fall Sh1bn on war
Kenya's tea industry is absorbing a significant financial blow from geopolitical upheaval. Exports to Russia have contracted by approximately Sh1 bill...
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🇰🇪 Duale backs Kenya-Somalia border reopening to boost trade
Kenya's Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has publicly endorsed plans to formally reopen the Kenya-Somalia border, positioning the move as a critica...
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🇰🇪 How electoral violence continues to disrupt Kenyan
Kenya's 2024 electoral cycle has exposed a critical vulnerability in East Africa's largest economy: the ability of mass civil unrest to paralyze comme...
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🇰🇪 Financial inclusion without insurance is a false promise
Mobile money has transformed Kenya's financial landscape. Over 89 million active M-Pesa users, a network that reaches 98% of the adult population, and...
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🇰🇪 Kenya, Tanzania bet on cross-border trade boom with $500
Kenya and Tanzania have formalized a landmark $500 million cross-border trade initiative aimed at accelerating economic integration along the East Afr...
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🇰🇪 Kenya: Finance Bill 2026 Ends KQ Tax Relief, Widens Digital
Kenya's proposed Finance Bill 2026 marks a significant fiscal recalibration that threatens Kenya Airways' competitive position while aggressively broa...
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🇰🇪 Small business, big ecosystems: From insights to action:
Kenya's small business landscape is undergoing a critical shift. No longer confined to production capacity or geographic footprint, enterprises are in...
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🇰🇪 Finance Bill 2026 ends KQ tax relief, widens digital tax net
Kenya's proposed Finance Bill 2026 marks a significant fiscal shift that will reshape the tax landscape for the nation's flagship airline and foreign ...
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🇰🇪 Kenya: Ole Kina Urges Treasury to Stop Off-Budget Spending
Kenya's fiscal discipline came under renewed scrutiny this week as Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina publicly urged the national treasury to impose a mora...
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🇰🇪 Mater Hospital secures Sh100mn equipment boost for growth
Kenya's private healthcare sector is gaining momentum as Mater Misericordiae Hospital Nairobi announced a significant Sh100 million equipment injectio...
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🇰🇪 Govt proposes 5pc tax on mitumba imports
Kenya's government is advancing a controversial proposal to impose a 5% tax on mitumba imports—second-hand clothing that dominates the affordable fash...
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🇰🇪 Tea export levy raises concerns among growers
Kenya's tea sector—the nation's second-largest foreign exchange earner after horticulture—faces a fresh headwind. A newly introduced 0.8% export levy ...
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