Canon celebrates 10 women under its Women Who Empower program
Canon Middle East, Central and North Africa has celebrated the first phase of its Women Who Empower program with ten winners.
Since its launch at the beginni...
Microsoft launches 90 additional updates & services in a bid to enhance user experience
Microsoft has introduced more than 90 new services and updates to address emerging trends and explore ways of connecting people, organizations, and ideas in the...
Spotify’s adds 254 Flow, Eastern Vibes & Zilizopendwa playlists to celebrate East African music
Spotify has added three new playlists to showcase the diversity of East African music from different genres including Hip Hop, R&B and Zilizopendwa.
The ...
Moove partners with Lori Systems to promote financing for African trucking & logistics
Moove, an African mobility fintech, has partnered with Lori Systems, an e-logistics company in Africa. The partnership marks Moove’s first move into the logisti...
Diamonds Dream of Africa hotel wins Africa’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort award
The Diamonds Dream of Africa hotel in based in Malindi has been named the Leading All-inclusive resort in Africa 2021 by the World Travel Awards (WTA).
Diamo...
Sarova Stanley Hotel introduces Swahili Fridays to its menu
The Sarova Stanley Hotel has added Swahili Fridays to its offering as it seeks to diversify its menu to complement customers’ needs.
For Swahili Fridays, Sar...
Spotify appoints Irvine Partners as its PR agency for Sub-Saharan Africa
Irvine Partners, a public relations and integrated marketing agency, has been awarded the Spotify communications account in Sub-Saharan Africa. Irvine begun wor...
Here are the nominees for the 2021 Kalasha Film & TV Awards
The Kenya Film Commission has unveiled the nominees in various categories for the 11th edition of the Kalasha International Film and TV awards.
Officiating t...
Virtual Pay receives ISO 27001 Accreditation for its security management system
Virtual Pay, a payment solutions provider, has been awarded the prestigious ISO 27001:2013 certification, receiving accreditation for its Information Security M...
CEO Fridays: Glenfiddich’s Mulunda Kombo on the brand & the campaign to introduce the whisky to more Kenyans
Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whisky’s global campaign, Where Next? campaign has been gaining momentum in the Kenyan market. In partnership with EatOut, Glenfi...
Merck opens applications for scholarships for Doctors in underserved specialties in Africa
Merck Foundation has announced the call for applications for medical training scholarships for healthcare providers in critical and underserved specialties for ...
Minet Kenya wins award in the 2021 Intermediaries’ Awards by UAP
Minet Kenya Insurance Brokers has been awarded the overall best intermediary of the year in the 2020 annual Intermediaries’ Awards by UAP Insurance Kenya.
Th...
DCG secures Ksh. 78 billion to fuel subsidiary Luno’s expansion in the USA
Digital Currency Group (DCG), Luno’s parent company, has closed a Ksh. 78 billion (USD 700 million) funding round from investors. The round was led by SoftBank,...
5 easy to make whiskey cocktails
Whiskey is a drink that most people enjoy either neat or in the rocks with a bit of water. However, there are other ways to take your whiskey and make it delici...
Chandarana Foodplus opens new branch in Nakuru
Chandarana Foodplus retail chain has opened an new store to be the anchor tenant at the Golden Life Mall in Nakuru, taking its total stores count to 23 in the c...
LG targets the growing on-demand laundry market with smart shops
LG Electronics is seeking to tap into the fast-growing on-demand laundry market in East Africa with a new concept targeting clients looking for superior home wa...
Sama has been named the Best in Machine Learning Platforms at the 2021 AI TechAwards
Sama, a training data provider in Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects, has announced it has received the 2021 AI TechAward for Best in Machine Learning Platfo...
Carrefour customers can now shop & pay later with Lipa Later
Lipa Later, a credit service company, has partnered with Carrefour to roll out the LipaVismart product powered by Lipa Later for all Carrefour customers.
Thi...
CDC Group commits Ksh. 455 B to combat climate emergency at the COP26 in Glasgow
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has announced plans to invest over Ksh. 455 billion (£3 billion) to support emerging ec...
Unity Homes begins construction of 640-apartments at Tatu City
Unity Homes has begun construction of Unity East at Tatu City with 640 two and three bedroom apartments.
The project follows the successful completion of the...
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...
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...
Why The 10Bet Sponsorship of Dodoma Jiji FC and Daring Club Motema Pembe FC Is Such Big News
The recent news from 10Bet about the plethora of team sponsorships they have lined up really is great news, for way more reasons than one. In reality, the fact ...
Opibus raises Ksh. 834 Million in funding aimed at scaling its operations in electric vehicle manufacturing
Opibus, a leading electric vehicle manufacturer, has announced today that it has raised Ksh. 834 Million ($7.5 mil) in funding led by Silicon Valley fund At On...
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...
Boomplay extends licensing partnership with CAPASSO as part of its expansion strategy across the continent
Boomplay, Africa’s leading music streaming platform has extended its licensing partnership with mechanical copyrights collection agency, Composers Authors and P...
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-...