Kenya’s Solar Freeze & Illuminum Greenhouses emerge winners in the Cisco’s Problem Solver Challenge

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Kenya’s Solar Freeze and Illuminum Greenhouses have emerged as winners in Cisco’s Problem Solver Challenge. Solar Freeze won the first runner up position, getti...

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BLAZE BYOB fourth edition launched; to start in Kakamega on 27th June

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Safaricom has launched the fourth edition of BLAZE Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) youth mentorship initiative in Kakamega County. The Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) intiat...

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Equity partners with Mastercard to offer loans to 600,000 Kenyan entrepreneurs

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Equity is among Kenyan partners that have been signed up to the Young Africa Works initiative by Mastercard. Equity will deploy its banking infrastructure as we...

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Africa Media Index to help increase Sub Saharan Africa advertising which stands at 0.47% of global investments

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Despite Africa being the continent with the youngest and fastest growing population in the world and with some of the fastest growing economies in the world. It...

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Safaricom sued by customer for Ksh. 115 trillion for an alleged data breach

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Safaricom has been sued for an eye watering Ksh. 115 trillion for an alleged data breach that involved customer data. In a suit, filed in the High Court on F...

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Kenyan children to join Total AFCON 2019 Player Escort Programme in Egypt

Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

Visa the official sponsor of the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations, has today announced the five children that will earn the once in a lifetime opportunity to be...

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Stephen Kiprono and Brian Njagi win chance to attend Creative LIAisons programme in Las Vegas

Staff WriterJune 24, 2019

Stephen Kiprono and Brian Njagi emerged as the winners of the Kenya Creative Hackathon held at Nairobi Garage on Friday and Saturday last week. As the winners t...

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Safaricom’s Chief Technology Officer Thibaud Rerolle to exit the telco in July

Staff WriterJune 24, 2019

Safaricom has announced that its chief technology officer (CTO) Thibaud Rerolle will be leaving  the  firm at the end of July and will be headed to Vodafone Tur...

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Manyatta United and Kitale Queens emerge as winners in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Finals

Staff WriterJune 24, 2019

Manyatta United and Kitale Queens yesterday emerged as the winners in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Youth tournament finals held in Meru. Manyatta United emer...

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Lyra Aoko & Leotunapika among winners in the BAKE Awards 2019

Staff WriterJune 23, 2019

The BAKE Awards 2019 winners were announced yesterday at a winners' gala event that was held at the Utalii Hotel. Like in recent years women dominated the compe...

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Manyatta United & Al-Ahly are in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals

Staff WriterJune 23, 2019

Manyatta United FC from Kisumu and Al-Ahly FC from Rift Valley have made it to the boys final of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Youth tournament. The Kisumu ba...

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Safaricom joins UN initiative to fight harmful gender stereotypes in advertising

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

Safaricom has announced that it has joined the highest governing body of the Unstereotype Alliance chaired by Phumzile Mlambo – Ngcuka, the UN Women Executive D...

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Mastercard invests Ksh. 10 billion in KCB’s 2jiajiri programme

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

KCB Foundation has announced that it has received Ksh. 10 billion ($100 million) in funding from the MasterCard Foundation for the 2Jiajiri programme. The funds...

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Mastercard invests Ksh. 30B in a youth job creation initiative in Kenya

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

Mastercard Foundation has launched its Young Africa Works in Kenya in a public-private partnership between it, the private sector, and the Kenyan Government. ...

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Acakoro Ladies & Kitale Queens make it to the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

Acakoro Ladies from Nairobi and Kitale Queens from Rift Valley have made it to the finals in the ongoing Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom National finals. Kitale Que...

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Presidents of Rwanda, Senegal & DRC to headline TEF Entrepreneurship Forum 2019

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced that the Presidents of Rwanda, Senegal and DRC to headline the Presidential Dialogue at the 2019 TEF  Entreprene...

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Health insurance company Cigna opens office in Kenya

Staff WriterJune 22, 2019

Health insurance service company Cigna has officially opened a new office in Kenya at the One Africa Place building in Nairobi. The office will serve as headqua...

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Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals are ongoing in Meru

Staff WriterJune 21, 2019

The national finals of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Youth Tournament kicked off yesterday with quarterfinal games played at Kinoru Stadium and ASK Showgrounds i...

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Alliance Boys tops InterswitchSPAK STEM Competition qualifying test

Staff WriterJune 21, 2019

Secondary schools in the Central Region have emerged tops in the just-ended National Qualifying Test for the ongoing InterswitchSPAK STEM competition. Nyanza em...

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Software Group appoints Connor Hanan as the new CEO for Africa

Staff WriterJune 21, 2019

Software Group has announced that is has appointed Mr. Connor Hanan to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Africa. Software Group is a global soft...

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Angeliqua Rivera is the Kenyan Diageo World Class Bartender of The Year

Staff WriterJune 21, 2019

Angeliqua Rivera has been crowned as the Kenyan Bartender of the year, at the Diageo Kenya World Class Competition 2019. Now in its fifth year in Kenya, the Wor...

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Ann Peggy is the new General Manager for PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort

Staff WriterJune 21, 2019

PrideInn Group of Hotels has announced that they have appointed Ann Peggy as the new General Manager for PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort & Spa in Shanzu. She bec...

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Visa partners with KCB and BAK to digitize payments for boda boda operators

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Visa has partnered with KCB Bank  and the Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya (BAK) to digitize payments for the motorcycle transport operators. The partne...

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Bolt expands operations to Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Bolt, the leading ride-hailing platform has announced that it start operations in Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika. This the stage for a continued push to expand its ...

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Meru to host the Chapa Dimba na Safaricom finals tomorrow

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Meru is set to host the finals of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom youth football tournament as from tomorrow the 20th of June 2019 with the quarter finals set to b...

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Visa partners with IBS Bank to drive payments inclusion in Somalia

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Visa has announced a partnership with IBS Bank, which will enable the bank to deepen its payments services in Somalia by going live with its acquiring business ...

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Visa’s Andrew Torre reappointed to the US President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Andrew Torre, Visa Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa has been reappointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing B...

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Musician Mutoriah to launch debut album on 22nd June

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter  Mutoriah is set to launch his self-produced debut album Dive In at a live concert on Saturday 22nd June...

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Equity Bank has given Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to SMEs in 2019

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Equity Bank has announced that it has given out Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as at the first quarter of 2019. This i...

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DT Dobie launches the 2019 Mercedes Benz AMG G63 in Kenya

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

DT Dobie who hold the Mercedes Benz franchise in Kenya has launched the 2019 Mercedes Benz AMG G63 into the Kenyan market. The G63 is the latest edition to t...

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Huawei Y9 Prime 2019, with auto-pop up camera, to be launched this month

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Huawei has announced that they will launch the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 in the Kenyan market  later this month. The new smartphone will come with an all-new Huaw...

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Nestlé launches Research & Development innovation challenge

Staff WriterJune 19, 2019

Nestlé has launched a Research and Development (R&D) innovation challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the company’s efforts to contribute to the local ...

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Reverse Call feature makes a comeback, this time at Safaricom

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

Safaricom has announced the availability of a “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to pay for calls for loved ones. The service en...

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Airtel Africa looking to raise Ksh. 76 Billion at the London IPO

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

Airtel Africa which is the continent’s second largest mobile operator is expecting a valuation of Ksh. 460 Billion in an IPO at the London Stock Exchange. Th...

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AI Expo Africa launches the AI Art Challenge

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

AI Expo Africa a business focused AI event in Africa has launched a grand challenge is to create an original piece of artwork or music that leverages AI. In ...

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Takwimu, an Africa focused digital information service launched in Nairobi

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

A consortium of African organization including africapractice, iHub and Code for Africa, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced t...

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DPO Group launches DumaCard, a B2B virtual and prepaid payment card

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

DPO Group, a payment service provider, has  launched Africa’s first business to business payment card. DPO’s DumaCard, which is offered as a plastic card as wel...

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TAC Studios in collaboration with Currency Media to produce The Yard, a Kenyan series

Staff WriterJune 18, 2019

Tac Studios, the  production arm of US-based The Africa Channel has announced a collaboration with Currency Media a Kenyan production house to produce “The Yard...

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Supersport launches online Olympics channel ahead of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

Staff WriterJune 17, 2019

Supersport has announced that it has launched a digital Olympic channel ahead of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The channel will have Olympic content all year ro...

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Mobile loan service Tala celebrates 5 years of existence

Staff WriterJune 17, 2019

Mobile loan service Tala has celebrated 5 years of existence having first launched in the Kenyan market in 2014. The loan service was initially known as Mkop...

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Daniel Kiptum & Juster Kwamesa win the 2019 Safaricom Deaf Half Marathon

Staff WriterJune 17, 2019

Defending Champion Daniel Kiptum from Nandi County retained his title as the winner of the sixth edition of the Deaf Half Marathon held on June 16, 2019 in Keri...

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KEBS launches initiative to recognize SMEs committed to upholding quality standards

Staff WriterJune 17, 2019

The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has launched the Kenya Quality Award (KQA), an initiative aimed at promoting a quality culture amongst Micro, Small and Med...

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