Africa Media Index to help increase Sub Saharan Africa advertising which stands at 0.47% of global investments
Despite Africa being the continent with the youngest and fastest growing population in the world and with some...
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Safaricom sued by customer for Ksh. 115 trillion for an alleged data breach
Safaricom has been sued for an eye watering Ksh. 115 trillion for an alleged data breach that involved...
Kenyan children to join Total AFCON 2019 Player Escort Programme in Egypt
Visa the official sponsor of the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations, has today announced the five children...
Stephen Kiprono and Brian Njagi win chance to attend Creative LIAisons programme in Las Vegas
Stephen Kiprono and Brian Njagi emerged as the winners of the Kenya Creative Hackathon held at Nairobi Garage...
Safaricom’s Chief Technology Officer Thibaud Rerolle to exit the telco in July
Safaricom has announced that its chief technology officer (CTO) Thibaud Rerolle will be leaving the firm at the...
Manyatta United and Kitale Queens emerge as winners in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Finals
Manyatta United and Kitale Queens yesterday emerged as the winners in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Youth tournament...
Lyra Aoko & Leotunapika among winners in the BAKE Awards 2019
The BAKE Awards 2019 winners were announced yesterday at a winners’ gala event that was held at the...
Manyatta United & Al-Ahly are in the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals
Manyatta United FC from Kisumu and Al-Ahly FC from Rift Valley have made it to the boys final...
Safaricom joins UN initiative to fight harmful gender stereotypes in advertising
Safaricom has announced that it has joined the highest governing body of the Unstereotype Alliance chaired by Phumzile...
Mastercard invests Ksh. 10 billion in KCB’s 2jiajiri programme
KCB Foundation has announced that it has received Ksh. 10 billion ($100 million) in funding from the MasterCard...
Mastercard invests Ksh. 30B in a youth job creation initiative in Kenya
Mastercard Foundation has launched its Young Africa Works in Kenya in a public-private partnership between it, the private...
Acakoro Ladies & Kitale Queens make it to the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals
Acakoro Ladies from Nairobi and Kitale Queens from Rift Valley have made it to the finals in the...
Presidents of Rwanda, Senegal & DRC to headline TEF Entrepreneurship Forum 2019
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced that the Presidents of Rwanda, Senegal and DRC to headline the...
Health insurance company Cigna opens office in Kenya
Health insurance service company Cigna has officially opened a new office in Kenya at the One Africa Place...
Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom finals are ongoing in Meru
The national finals of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom Youth Tournament kicked off yesterday with quarterfinal games played...
Alliance Boys tops InterswitchSPAK STEM Competition qualifying test
Secondary schools in the Central Region have emerged tops in the just-ended National Qualifying Test for the ongoing...
Software Group appoints Connor Hanan as the new CEO for Africa
Software Group has announced that is has appointed Mr. Connor Hanan to the position of Chief Executive Officer...
Angeliqua Rivera is the Kenyan Diageo World Class Bartender of The Year
Angeliqua Rivera has been crowned as the Kenyan Bartender of the year, at the Diageo Kenya World Class...
Ann Peggy is the new General Manager for PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort
PrideInn Group of Hotels has announced that they have appointed Ann Peggy as the new General Manager for...
Visa partners with KCB and BAK to digitize payments for boda boda operators
Visa has partnered with KCB Bank and the Boda Boda Safety Association of Kenya (BAK) to digitize payments...
Bolt expands operations to Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika
Bolt, the leading ride-hailing platform has announced that it start operations in Kisumu, Kakamega and Thika. This the...
Meru to host the Chapa Dimba na Safaricom finals tomorrow
Meru is set to host the finals of the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom youth football tournament as from...
Visa partners with IBS Bank to drive payments inclusion in Somalia
Visa has announced a partnership with IBS Bank, which will enable the bank to deepen its payments services...
Visa’s Andrew Torre reappointed to the US President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa
Andrew Torre, Visa Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa has been reappointed to...
Musician Mutoriah to launch debut album on 22nd June
Producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Mutoriah is set to launch his self-produced debut album Dive In at a...
Equity Bank has given Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to SMEs in 2019
Equity Bank has announced that it has given out Ksh. 6.5 billion in loans to Micro, Small and...
DT Dobie launches the 2019 Mercedes Benz AMG G63 in Kenya
DT Dobie who hold the Mercedes Benz franchise in Kenya has launched the 2019 Mercedes Benz AMG G63...
Huawei Y9 Prime 2019, with auto-pop up camera, to be launched this month
Huawei has announced that they will launch the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 in the Kenyan market later this...
Nestlé launches Research & Development innovation challenge
Nestlé has launched a Research and Development (R&D) innovation challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the company’s...
Reverse Call feature makes a comeback, this time at Safaricom
Safaricom has announced the availability of a “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to...
Airtel Africa looking to raise Ksh. 76 Billion at the London IPO
Airtel Africa which is the continent’s second largest mobile operator is expecting a valuation of Ksh. 460 Billion...
AI Expo Africa launches the AI Art Challenge
AI Expo Africa a business focused AI event in Africa has launched a grand challenge is to create...
Takwimu, an Africa focused digital information service launched in Nairobi
A consortium of African organization including africapractice, iHub and Code for Africa, with support from the Bill and...
DPO Group launches DumaCard, a B2B virtual and prepaid payment card
DPO Group, a payment service provider, has launched Africa’s first business to business payment card. DPO’s DumaCard, which...
TAC Studios in collaboration with Currency Media to produce The Yard, a Kenyan series
Tac Studios, the production arm of US-based The Africa Channel has announced a collaboration with Currency Media a...
Supersport launches online Olympics channel ahead of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Supersport has announced that it has launched a digital Olympic channel ahead of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020....
Mobile loan service Tala celebrates 5 years of existence
Mobile loan service Tala has celebrated 5 years of existence having first launched in the Kenyan market in...
Daniel Kiptum & Juster Kwamesa win the 2019 Safaricom Deaf Half Marathon
Defending Champion Daniel Kiptum from Nandi County retained his title as the winner of the sixth edition of...
KEBS launches initiative to recognize SMEs committed to upholding quality standards
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) has launched the Kenya Quality Award (KQA), an initiative aimed at promoting...
Online network for women agriprenuers launched in Nairobi
An online platform for women agriprenuers named VALUE4HERConnect has been launched in Nairobi. This is a part of a...
Jane Marriott to become first woman UK ambassador to Kenya
Jane Marriott has been appointed as the new UK Ambassador to Kenya ahead of the current ambassador Nic...
ABAK statement on the tax proposals in the 2019/20 budget reading
Following the reading of the Budget Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr Henry Rotich,...