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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
A consortium of African organization including africapractice, iHub and Code for Africa, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An online platform for women agriprenuers named VALUE4HERConnect has been launched in Nairobi. This is a part of a program led by the Technical Centre for Agric...
Jane Marriott has been appointed as the new UK Ambassador to Kenya ahead of the current ambassador Nic Hailey’s departure in September 2019. She becomes the fir...
Media personality Adelle Onyango has announced that she will launch a new podcast called PursePective on June 25 in conjunction with Safe Boda Kenya.
The pod...
Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Ms. Andersen w...
Safaricom has updated their MySafaricom app which now allows you to input the PIN within the app. The new update was launched on 14th June and is currently avai...
The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr Henry Rotich yesterday read the 2019/2020 budget statement. Among the proposals he laid out were the repeal ...
Following the reading of the Budget Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Mr Henry Rotich, the Alcoholic Beverages Association of Kenya ...
Safaricom launched Lipa na M-Pesa in 2013 to enable merchants to be able to accept payments via their popular mobile payments platform, M-Pesa. The launch broug...
J's Fresh Kitchen and Bar recently responded to a case of an assault of a customer after she apparently kissed a woman at the establishment. They were then kick...
Safaricom has made it into the prestigious Forbes Global 2000 list of the leading 2000 public companies in the world. Safaricom is the only Kenyan company on th...
Following yesterday’s presentation in Parliament of the budget for the 2019/20 financial year, the Route to Food Initiative wishes to state as follows:
▪ Gov...
Seven Chinese nationals Trading in Gikomba has been arrested after their activities were highlighted in various media outlets. This led to an uproar by Kenyans ...
East Breweries Limited (EABL) in conjunction with Nature Kenya and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) joined the residents of Kieni Forest, Kiambu County in marking Wor...
The Mest Africa Summit that took place on 12th June in Nairobi and three startups won $50,000 in the MEST Africa Challenge finals.
The event was organized by...
Fine Edge Media, a media publishing house, is set to officially launch 14 magazines in the Kenyan market at the end of June.
The Creative Media house will be...
Former Liverpool and Barcelona footballer Luis Garcia will grace the Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom National Final set for Kinoru stadium, Meru County between June 20...
Equity Bank has been given a license to operate in Ethiopia by the country’s regulator. As such the bank has set up a Commercial Representative Office in Addis ...
The Foundation of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA (the Foundation) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced today that the Foundation awarded ...
During the Urban Mobility Summit an event that brings together mobility enthusiasts in Nairobi, Uber launched the newly updated Uber Movement which now includes...
IBM has announced the expansion of its quantum computing efforts to Africa in a new collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in ...
ABC Bank has rewarded Nicholas Muchami from Kaganda village, Kiharu, Murang’a County with a dairy grade cow. He is the man who dug a two kilometre road to make ...
WorldRemit has launched a new service that will enable UK based companies to pay their employees and contractors in 150 countries worldwide, including African c...
European Investment Bank has launched a new EUR 50 million (Ksh. 5.7 billion) agriculture sector financing programme. The Kenya Agriculture Value Chain Facility...
Google has today celebrated the late Dr Margaret Ogola, an award-winning author, medical doctor, and human rights advocate, with a Google Doodle. The doodle is ...
DStv has announced that the iconic animated cartoon series Supa Strikas will return for a 6th season on Monday 17 June. In this brand-new season of the soccer a...
Creadev, a global investment company, has announced that it has made an investment of Ksh. 500 million (USD 5 million) in Twiga Foods. Twiga is a Kenyan-based t...
Blue Band has launched the Good Breakfast Campaign for the third year running and will provide breakfast to 2 million children in Kenya. The campaign aims to ta...
Centum Investment Company PLC has announced that its full year pretax profit for the period ending March 2019 rose 41% to Ksh. 4.44 billion. This is a 41% incre...
