Bolt hosts its women drivers for wellness workshop to raise awareness on breast cancer

Grace MathekaNovember 1, 2024

Bolt recently hosted a specialized wellness workshop for its female drivers as part of breast cancer awareness month in October. The workshop focused on the imp...

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Java opens new branches in Thika, Kenol & Kisumu as it accelerates expansion drive

Grace MathekaNovember 1, 2024

Java House has officially opened three new branches as it heads to 100 branches across the region by the end of the Q1 2025. The new outlets fall under Java’s e...

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White Cap Lager & EatOut Kenya partner for upcoming Caribbean Brunch on Nov 9

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

White Cap Lager has announced its partnership with EatOut Kenya for the upcoming Caribbean Brunch on November 9, 2024. The collaboration with EatOut Kenya will ...

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World Vision celebrates 50 years of humanitarian work in Kenya

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

World Vision Kenya has commemorated its 50th anniversary celebrating 5 decades of transforming the lives of children, families, and communities in Kenya. The or...

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IEK annual international convention officially begins in Mombasa

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

The Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) has officially opened its 31st International Convention at the Pride Inn Paradise Beach Resort in Mombasa. This mark...

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SVRI Forum highlights the role of digital platforms in sexual reproductive health advocacy

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

Activists, influencers, and technology experts have revealed that young people have made major gains by advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRH...

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KCB Foundation to conduct vocational training for youth in Webuye East & Mwingi North

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

Youth from Webuye East and Mwingi North constituencies are set to receive technical vocational skills and business development training from the KCB Foundation....

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Visa & EFT Corporation partner to expand digital payments in Africa

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

EFT Corporation (EFTCorp) and Visa have announced a five-year partnership that aims to revolutionize Africa’s digital payments landscape. This collaboration see...

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Safaricom Foundation launches Ksh. 240M digital skills program for teachers in Kenya

Grace MathekaOctober 31, 2024

Safaricom Foundation has partnered with the Ministry of Education and Vodafone Foundation to launch a Ksh. 240 million program to scale digital skills for teach...

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Visa & USAID partner to boost digital government ecosystems

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Visa has announced a working partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve access to inclusive digital government s...

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Huawei report shows a possible 8.3% return on investment in a country’s digital economy

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

A Huawei’s Global Digitalization Index (GDI) report has shown that one-US-dollar investment in digital transformation can yield an 8.3-US-dollar return in a cou...

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New drama series ‘Mkasi’ premieres on Maisha Magic Plus

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Maisha Magic Plus has announced the debut a new drama series, Mkasi. The series follows the Kombe family, whose seemingly perfect lives are shattered by the mys...

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Safaricom receives PIMS Certification for its payments & data centre operations

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Safaricom has been awarded the ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) certificate following an evaluation by the British Standards Institute (BS...

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Kisumu City set to host the inaugural E-Mobility Youth Skills Forum & motor show

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Kisumu City will host Kenya's first-ever E-mobility Youth Skills Forum and Motor Show, aimed to empower youth in the rapidly expanding electric mobility sector....

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Google invests $5.8M towards AI skilling & education in Kenya, South Africa & Nigeria

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Google President of EMEA Matt Brittin has announced Ksh. 748,432,000 (USD 5.8 million) in Google.org funding to support foundational AI and cybersecurity traini...

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Comedian Barbara Nyambura releases her first single titled ‘Next Mistake’

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Kenyan comedy star Barbara Nyambura has dropped her debut single dubbed Next Mistake. The release comes a few weeks after she announced that she will be venturi...

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MCK extends submission deadline for its Annual Awards Gala to Nov 4

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

The Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) has extended the final submission deadline for the 2024 MSK Annual Awards Gala entries to 4th November, 2024. The deadline ...

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EABC conducts AfCFTA trade training for SMEs in East Africa

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

The East African Business Council (EABC) has trained over 50 SMEs in partnership with the Team Europe Technical Assistance Facility. The training aimed to suppo...

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Café Deli relaunches its Ngong Road branch

Grace MathekaOctober 30, 2024

Local restaurant chain Café Deli has officially relaunched its Ngong Road branch as its hub offering culinary experiences. This expansion is part of the impleme...

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KAM partners with Judiciary to unveil a business guide on anti-corruption & economic crimes

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association (KMJA) have launched the Business Guide on Anti-Corruption and Economi...

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Airtel Kenya unveils new campaign offering increased data for monthly & weekly plans

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

Airtel Kenya has launched a new Data ImeData campaign offering their weekly and monthly data customers up to 50% more data from Ksh. 50 to Ksh. 1,000. The Amazi...

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Emmanuel Wandera’s community drawing wins him the 2024 BIC Art Master Africa grand prize

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

BIC has announced the regional and national winners of the sixth edition of its ballpoint pen art competition, Art Master Africa. The competition was launched e...

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Kenyans can now apply for UK visas through VFS Global

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

VFS Global has announced that residents of Kenya traveling to the UK can now book appointments to submit their visa applications through VFS Global’s new visa a...

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Filmmaker Kinyua Kamau’s ‘Nyūmba Ya Mbūri’ debuts at the NBO Film Festival

Grace MathekaOctober 28, 2024

Kenyan indie filmmaker Kinyua Kamau has released his debut feature film, Nyūmba Ya Mbūri. The film has been selected as part of the NBO Film Festival and recent...

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Nairobi Jaffery wins this year’s Crawford International School Student Game Jam

Grace MathekaOctober 26, 2024

Nairobi Jaffery Academy recently triumphed in the third edition of the Crawford International School student Game Jam. Oshwal Academy came in second place, whil...

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M-PESA for Business taps tappi to boost digital solutions for SMEs

Grace MathekaOctober 26, 2024

tappi digital commerce solution has announced its partnership with Safaricom’s M-PESA. The partnership is aimed at empowering M-PESA’s 650,000-strong network of...

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Jubilee Insurance & DTB unveil new digital payment solution for health insurance

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Jubilee Health Insurance has announced a collaboration with Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), to unveil a digital payment solution that aims to transform payments of he...

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The END Fund showcases ‘Reframing Neglect’ photography series on fight against NTDs

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

The END Fund recently hosted an exhibition at the historic McMillan Memorial Library to celebrate the Reframing Neglect photography series. The series highlight...

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M-KOPA surpasses 3 million customer milestone, creates over 16,000 jobs in Kenya

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

M-KOPA Kenya has presented key findings from its annual Impact Report, Pathways to Progress at a media roundtable in Nairobi. The report reveals that out of the...

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World Vision launches program to fight against child marriage in Kenya

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

World Vision Kenya has launched The Big Dream to End Child Marriage program, an initiative that builds upon and expands the Kenya Big Dream (KBD). The KBD progr...

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Savannah Clinker raises Bamburi Cement bid to Ksh. 27.7 billion

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Savannah Clinker has announced an increase in its offer for Bamburi Cement, raising the bid price from Ksh. 70 per share to Ksh. 76.55 per share. This revision ...

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Absa Bank & IFC train over 600 suppliers on corporate procurement

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Absa Bank Kenya has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide training for over 600 suppliers in the past two years. The training ha...

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Khweva Theatre Group set to debut a first-ever rotating stage in upcoming ‘Mpaka’ musical

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Khweva Theatre Group is set to wow fans and musical lovers with their latest musical production, Mpaka, by introducing Kenya’s first-ever rotating stage. The mu...

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Prudential partners with Google Cloud to use Generative AI for seamless medical claims

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Google Cloud and Prudential have announced that the latter is using MedLM, Google’s family of foundation models fine-tuned for healthcare industry use cases. Th...

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BURN secures $15M additional investment from EIB to expand in East Africa

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

BURN has secured a USD 15 million investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The Ksh. 1.9 billion (USD 15 million) investment was announced during the ...

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Vincent Mbaya’s comedy film ‘Sketchy Africans’ set to premiere on November 30

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

A new comedy film Sketchy Africans (Sketchy AF!), from director Vincent Mbaya, is set for its cinema release on November 30, 2024. In the film, a desperate entr...

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The NBO Film Festival to close with ‘Our Land, Our Freedom’ on October 27

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

The NBO Film Festival opened on October 17, 2024, with the premiere screening of the award-winning film The Battle for Laikipia. The film was directed by acclai...

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Afro-Latin Tamasha dance event to take place on November 2 at Alliance Française

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

The inaugural Afro-Latin Tamasha music and dance event has been scheduled to take place on Saturday, 2nd November this year at the Alliance Française in Nairobi...

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Qatar Airways introduces world’s first Boeing 777 flight equipped with Starlink

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Qatar Airways has achieved a big milestone by operating the world’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 aircraft from Doha to London on Monday, 22 October, 2024....

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Huawei conducts registration for its ICT competition at Kenyatta University

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Huawei Kenya has held its second ICT Competition roadshow at Kenyatta University. The registration exercise is part of Huawei’s efforts to recruit over 7,000 Ke...

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Safaricom sustainability report shows an impressive Ksh. 983B injection in the Kenyan economy

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

The latest Safaricom Sustainable Business Report has revealed that the telco has contributed Ksh. 983 billion to the Kenyan economy as it sustained 1,283,329 jo...

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Samsung unveils the Galaxy S24 FE smartphone in the Kenyan market selling at Ksh. 91,000

Grace MathekaOctober 25, 2024

Samsung Electronics East Africa has introduced the Galaxy S24 FE, the latest addition to the Galaxy AI ecosystem. The new smartphone is powered by the AI-bas...

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