Visa & USAID partner to boost digital government ecosystems
Visa has announced a working partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to improve access to inclusive digital government s...
Huawei report shows a possible 8.3% return on investment in a country’s digital economy
A Huawei’s Global Digitalization Index (GDI) report has shown that one-US-dollar investment in digital transformation can yield an 8.3-US-dollar return in a cou...
New drama series ‘Mkasi’ premieres on Maisha Magic Plus
Maisha Magic Plus has announced the debut a new drama series, Mkasi. The series follows the Kombe family, whose seemingly perfect lives are shattered by the mys...
Safaricom receives PIMS Certification for its payments & data centre operations
Safaricom has been awarded the ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) certificate following an evaluation by the British Standards Institute (BS...
Kisumu City set to host the inaugural E-Mobility Youth Skills Forum & motor show
Kisumu City will host Kenya's first-ever E-mobility Youth Skills Forum and Motor Show, aimed to empower youth in the rapidly expanding electric mobility sector....
Google invests $5.8M towards AI skilling & education in Kenya, South Africa & Nigeria
Google President of EMEA Matt Brittin has announced Ksh. 748,432,000 (USD 5.8 million) in Google.org funding to support foundational AI and cybersecurity traini...
Comedian Barbara Nyambura releases her first single titled ‘Next Mistake’
Kenyan comedy star Barbara Nyambura has dropped her debut single dubbed Next Mistake. The release comes a few weeks after she announced that she will be venturi...
MCK extends submission deadline for its Annual Awards Gala to Nov 4
The Marketing Society of Kenya (MSK) has extended the final submission deadline for the 2024 MSK Annual Awards Gala entries to 4th November, 2024. The deadline ...
EABC conducts AfCFTA trade training for SMEs in East Africa
The East African Business Council (EABC) has trained over 50 SMEs in partnership with the Team Europe Technical Assistance Facility. The training aimed to suppo...
Café Deli relaunches its Ngong Road branch
Local restaurant chain Café Deli has officially relaunched its Ngong Road branch as its hub offering culinary experiences. This expansion is part of the impleme...
Leading players in construction industry endorse LG HVAC systems
Leading players in the construction and housing business in Kenya have endorsed the quality of LG Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in tr...
Kenya Power Reports Ksh. 30B profit for FY 2023/24
Kenya Power has announced that it recorded a net profit of Ksh.30 billion for the financial year ending June 30, 2024. This represents an improvement from the p...
ICP HUB Kenya partners with ICP HUB Turkey to host bootcamp
ICP HUB Kenya has partnered with ICP HUB Turkey to advance Web3 development and promote blockchain education across both regions.
This collaboration represen...
4 reasons why you need a LOOP Visa card in your life
Advances in technology have meant that most of the services that we consume on a regular basis have been moved online in a bid to ensure convenience. Consequent...
KAM partners with Judiciary to unveil a business guide on anti-corruption & economic crimes
The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association (KMJA) have launched the Business Guide on Anti-Corruption and Economi...
Airtel Kenya unveils new campaign offering increased data for monthly & weekly plans
Airtel Kenya has launched a new Data ImeData campaign offering their weekly and monthly data customers up to 50% more data from Ksh. 50 to Ksh. 1,000. The Amazi...
Emmanuel Wandera’s community drawing wins him the 2024 BIC Art Master Africa grand prize
BIC has announced the regional and national winners of the sixth edition of its ballpoint pen art competition, Art Master Africa. The competition was launched e...
Kenyans can now apply for UK visas through VFS Global
VFS Global has announced that residents of Kenya traveling to the UK can now book appointments to submit their visa applications through VFS Global’s new visa a...
Filmmaker Kinyua Kamau’s ‘Nyūmba Ya Mbūri’ debuts at the NBO Film Festival
Kenyan indie filmmaker Kinyua Kamau has released his debut feature film, Nyūmba Ya Mbūri. The film has been selected as part of the NBO Film Festival and recent...
Nairobi Jaffery wins this year’s Crawford International School Student Game Jam
Nairobi Jaffery Academy recently triumphed in the third edition of the Crawford International School student Game Jam. Oshwal Academy came in second place, whil...
M-PESA for Business taps tappi to boost digital solutions for SMEs
tappi digital commerce solution has announced its partnership with Safaricom’s M-PESA. The partnership is aimed at empowering M-PESA’s 650,000-strong network of...
Jubilee Insurance & DTB unveil new digital payment solution for health insurance
Jubilee Health Insurance has announced a collaboration with Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), to unveil a digital payment solution that aims to transform payments of he...
The END Fund showcases ‘Reframing Neglect’ photography series on fight against NTDs
The END Fund recently hosted an exhibition at the historic McMillan Memorial Library to celebrate the Reframing Neglect photography series. The series highlight...
M-KOPA surpasses 3 million customer milestone, creates over 16,000 jobs in Kenya
M-KOPA Kenya has presented key findings from its annual Impact Report, Pathways to Progress at a media roundtable in Nairobi. The report reveals that out of the...
World Vision launches program to fight against child marriage in Kenya
World Vision Kenya has launched The Big Dream to End Child Marriage program, an initiative that builds upon and expands the Kenya Big Dream (KBD). The KBD progr...
Savannah Clinker raises Bamburi Cement bid to Ksh. 27.7 billion
Savannah Clinker has announced an increase in its offer for Bamburi Cement, raising the bid price from Ksh. 70 per share to Ksh. 76.55 per share. This revision ...
Absa Bank & IFC train over 600 suppliers on corporate procurement
Absa Bank Kenya has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to provide training for over 600 suppliers in the past two years. The training ha...
Khweva Theatre Group set to debut a first-ever rotating stage in upcoming ‘Mpaka’ musical
Khweva Theatre Group is set to wow fans and musical lovers with their latest musical production, Mpaka, by introducing Kenya’s first-ever rotating stage. The mu...
Prudential partners with Google Cloud to use Generative AI for seamless medical claims
Google Cloud and Prudential have announced that the latter is using MedLM, Google’s family of foundation models fine-tuned for healthcare industry use cases. Th...
BURN secures $15M additional investment from EIB to expand in East Africa
BURN has secured a USD 15 million investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The Ksh. 1.9 billion (USD 15 million) investment was announced during the ...
Vincent Mbaya’s comedy film ‘Sketchy Africans’ set to premiere on November 30
A new comedy film Sketchy Africans (Sketchy AF!), from director Vincent Mbaya, is set for its cinema release on November 30, 2024. In the film, a desperate entr...
The NBO Film Festival to close with ‘Our Land, Our Freedom’ on October 27
The NBO Film Festival opened on October 17, 2024, with the premiere screening of the award-winning film The Battle for Laikipia. The film was directed by acclai...
Afro-Latin Tamasha dance event to take place on November 2 at Alliance Française
The inaugural Afro-Latin Tamasha music and dance event has been scheduled to take place on Saturday, 2nd November this year at the Alliance Française in Nairobi...
Qatar Airways introduces world’s first Boeing 777 flight equipped with Starlink
Qatar Airways has achieved a big milestone by operating the world’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 aircraft from Doha to London on Monday, 22 October, 2024....
Huawei conducts registration for its ICT competition at Kenyatta University
Huawei Kenya has held its second ICT Competition roadshow at Kenyatta University. The registration exercise is part of Huawei’s efforts to recruit over 7,000 Ke...
Safaricom sustainability report shows an impressive Ksh. 983B injection in the Kenyan economy
The latest Safaricom Sustainable Business Report has revealed that the telco has contributed Ksh. 983 billion to the Kenyan economy as it sustained 1,283,329 jo...
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S24 FE smartphone in the Kenyan market selling at Ksh. 91,000
Samsung Electronics East Africa has introduced the Galaxy S24 FE, the latest addition to the Galaxy AI ecosystem.
The new smartphone is powered by the AI-bas...
Edwin Okoth launches documentary on the SGR & its impact on the livelihoods of trucks driver
Journalist Edwin Okoth has launched a new documentary that explores the impact of the Standard Gauge Railway, popularly known as SGR, on the livelihoods of truc...
Introducing MoPhones renewed phones with 1 year warranty
MoPhones has announced that it is offering renewed phones, refurbished devices that provide a new-phone experience without the hefty price tag. The move is aime...
Better digital payments infrastructure is facilitating access to new markets for enterprise
Saying that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of economies in East Africa is an understatement. SMEs make up the largest part of all re...
Safaricom & MultiChoice partner to offer exclusive content on Showmax
MultiChoice has announced a partnership with Safaricom, allowing Safaricom customers to access exclusive TV shows, movies, sports, and documentaries on Showmax ...
Air France-KLM leads food initiative at Thogoto Model Primary School
Over 700 students and teachers at Thogoto Model Primary School in Kenya’s Kiambu County are set to benefit from fresh vegetables and fruits plucked from their n...