BasiGo, an electric transit company launches operations in the Kenyan market
BasiGo, an e-mobility startup, has announced its official entry into the Kenyan market. The company will provide electric buses for purchase by public transport...
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Opibus secures Ksh. 835M in funding to scale manufacturing of electric motorcycles & buses
Opibus, an electric vehicle manufacturer, has announced that it has raised Ksh. 835 million ($7.5 million) in funding . The round was led by Silicon Valley fund...
Telkom partners with Ericsson & NEC XON to expand its network in Kenya
Telkom and its partners, Ericsson and systems integrator NEC XON, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to add an additional 2,000 sites onto Telkom’s netwo...
ADAPTA to develop and test an innovative loan insuring platform in a bid to unlock financing for farmers and Agri-SMEs
Africa's climate adaptation credit facility for agriculture, ADAPTA, has launched with Ksh. 166,950,000 (USD 1.5 million) in funding from the Bill and Melinda G...
Dr. Judy Gichoya has been named as the Most Influential Radiology Researcher at the 2021 Minnies awards
Radiology portal AuntMinnie.com, which is part of the Science and Medicine Group, has announced the winners of the 2021 edition of the Minnies awards. The award...
KEPSA renews 10-year agreement with MEDEF to support Kenyan & French businesses
The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and the Mouvement des Entreprises de France International (MEDEF) have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)...
Twiga Foods has raised Ksh. 5.5 Billion in a series C fundraising round for expansion in East & West Africa
Twiga Foods, a Kenyan agricultural tech start-up, has raised Ksh. 5.56 billion (USD 50 milion) from international investors for its planned East and West Africa...
Elisha Kiprop & Valentine Kipketer win the 2021 Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon
Elisha Kiprop and Valentine Kipketer have won the 42 Kilometers Men and Women races in the just concluded Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.
Elisha Kiprop se...
Moses Gatundu wins the Strathmore Alumni Golf Tournament trophy
Moses Gatundu scored an impressive 41 points to win the overall winner at the inaugural Strathmore University Alumni Golf Tournament trophy at the Karen Golf an...
Safaricom partners with UNICEF & Directorate of Children Services to launch child safety campaign
Safaricom, UNICEF Kenya and the Directorate of Children Services have launched a campaign dubbed Spot it, Stop it, to promote awareness on violence against chil...
Trade on EABL’s Medium Term Note begins at the NSE
Trading on the Ksh. 11 billion East African Breweries PLC (EABL) Medium-Term Note has officially begun on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE).
The 5-year, ...
Huawei’s NEXT-IMAGE Awards 2021 judges give winning tips to competition participants
The Huawei NEXT-IMAGE smartphone photography competition is currently underway, with submission of entries inspired by the 2021 theme of Better Together. Amateu...
Kenya & DRC announce trade visit in partnership with Equity in a bid to boost bilateral trade
The Government of Kenya and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in partnership with the Equity Group have organized a 15-day Trade Miss...
Junior Golf Foundation partners with Safaricom, NCBA, Crown Paints & Prime Bank to scale golf in Kenya
The Junior Golf Foundation (JGF) has received a major boost after signing partnerships with Safaricom, NCBA, Crown Paints and Prime Bank in its ambition to nurt...
Airtel Africa commits Ksh. 6.3B to promote digital learning for children across Africa
Airtel Africa and UNICEF have announced a 5-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning through connecting schools to the i...
Toyota partners with NTSA to promote road safety amongst boda boda operators
Toyota Kenya has pledged its support for the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) boda boda safety campaign through the donation of three Yamaha Crux ...
Kenya receives additional 990,990 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the USA
Kenya has received a further 990,990 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in yet another boost to the ongoing accelerated COVID-19 vaccination drive. The doses ...
Shamba Pride secures Ksh. 122M funding round led by Seedstars Africa Ventures & Gray Matters Capital
Shamba Pride, an online platform that connects farmers to quality inputs and services, has closed a Ksh. 122 million (USD 1.1 milllion) round. The round was led...
SaveApp & MyWagePay among 12 tech startups selected for the 2021 Angel Fair Africa
The 9th edition of the Angel Fair Africa (AFA) slated for 25th November this year has named the investors panel to support 12 African tech ventures.
The all-...
14 quarantine free holiday destinations for Kenyans by Emirates
As vaccination drives continue globally, more cities are ending nationwide curfew, easing their entry requirements and opening their borders to visitors ahead o...
Workpay expands operations to Nigeria in a bid to enable SMEs to manage their employees from anywhere
Workpay has extended its business operations to Nigeria. The startup allows SMEs to easily manage and pay their employees from anywhere in Africa.
With Workp...
African Wildlife Foundation commemorates 60 years of conservation with a wildlife photography competition
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is celebrating its 60th year anniversary with a photogrpahy awards exhibition celebrating AWF’s decades of conservation wo...
realme has launched the GT Master Edition Series in the Kenyan market, to retail at Ksh. 45,000
realme has released the realme GT Master Edition series in East Africa to meet the growing demand for high-end stylish mobile phones.
Designed by industrial ...
Ecobank’s Ellevate program wins awards for supporting women owned businesses
Ecobank has received two awards for its Ellevate Program. The Financial Alliance for Women honoured Ecobank with the Impact Award, recognizing Ecobank’s work in...
Shamba Pride & Kijenzi among Kenyan startups selected for the NINJA Accelerator program
5 Kenyan startups have been selected to be part of the 2nd cohort of the NINJA Accelerator program. The program powered by the Japan International Cooperation A...
Strathmore University Business School partners with Fairtrade Africa to support growth opportunities across Africa
Strathmore University Business School (SBS) has signed a partnership agreement with Fairtrade Africa (FTA), aimed at fostering growth opportunities for it’s pro...
Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon to take place tomorrow, October 31
The Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon organizing committee has announced that all is set for the 18th edition to be held tomorrow, Sunday 31st October, 2021.
...
Coca-Cola introduces new brand identity for its products in the Kenyan market
Coca-Cola has unveiled the Real Magic brand philosophy and platform that invites people to celebrate the magic of humanity.
The Real Magic platform includes ...
Facebook rebrands to Meta as it focuses on virtual reality
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has introduced Meta, the new company brand. The name change was announced at the 2021 Facebook Connect Conference with the aim of b...
Safaricom Foundation donates learning materials & water support to Oneno Nam Primary School in Kisumu
Pupils in Oneno Nam Primary School in Kisumu County are set to benefit from learning and water infrastructure worth Ksh. 5.4 million from the Safaricom Foundati...
These are the competing teams in the 2021 Rugby Safari Sevens
The Kenya Rugby Union has announced the competing squads for the 2021 Rugby Safari Seven which will be on October 30-31 at the Nyayo National Stadium.
The th...
Airtel Africa reports a Ksh. 21 B net profit in Q2 ending September 30
Airtel Africa has registered a net profit of Ksh. 21 billion ($192 million) in the fiscal second quarter, which more than doubled compared to a similar period i...
Equity receives Ksh. 5 billion from Proparco to support SMEs in Kenya
Proparco has granted Equity Bank two guarantee facilities, ARIZ and EURIZ, totaling Ksh. 5 billion (€39 million). The guarantee facilities are aimed at helping ...
CMA, NSE & KEPFIC sign MoU to support infrastructure investments via capital markets
The Capital Markets Authority (CMA), Kenya Pension Funds Investment Consortium (KEPFIC) and the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) have entered into an agreement...
Liquid Intelligent Technologies partners with Orange to expand connectivity across Africa
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with Orange to leverage each other's existing networks in Africa. The partnership will also enhance access and opp...
SEACOM acquires 100% stake in Hirani Telecom’s fibre network
SEACOM, a telecommunications service provider, has announced that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network. The network wil...
Kenyan sprint star Omanyala is the LG sports personality for September
Sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala has been named the LG Sport's Personality for the month for September, 2021.
Omanyala received the recognition following his impr...
Azziad Nasenya is the only East African nominated in the 2021 People’s Choice Awards
Content creator and actress Azziad Nasenya has been nominated for the 2021 America’s E! People’s Choice Awards in the African Social Star Category.
Other nom...
Guinness Hop House 13 set to launch a cooking show dubbed ‘Flavour by Fire’
The Flavour by Fire show powered by Guinness Hop House 13 is a new cooking show that will bring 3 contestants together to battle it out for the Flavour by Fire ...
AfDB to invest Ksh. 1.1 Billion in ARCH Cold Chain Solutions in a bid to boost cold storage & distribution of food in East Africa
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an equity investment of Ksh. 1.1 billion ($10 million) in the ARCH Cold Chain Solutio...
15 movies & series you can watch on Showmax this Halloween
Showmax has a wide array of movies and TV shows that you can stream on demand on the platform. These include local and international award-winning TV series and...
OPPO launches OPPO Health, ray tracing & carlink technologies at the 2021 Developer Conference
Smartphone brand OPPO recently held the 2021 OPPO Developer Conference (ODC) under the theme Building A Better Future Together. The company introduced a series ...
