Autochek acquires Morocco’s KIFAL Auto as it expands to North Africa
Autochek an online e-commerce platform has acquired Morocco’s KIFAL Auto for an undisclosed amount, marking the entry of the vehicle marketplace into North Afri...
Hisa App has been selected to join NVIDIA Inception, a program designed to nurture startups
Hisa App, a mobile investment platform has announced that it has been selected to join NVIDIA Inception. This is a programme designed to nurture startups revolu...
CDSC reverses move to introduce Ksh. 100 account maintenance fee after public outcry
In a statement, the Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) has reversed its earlier move to introduce a Ksh. 100 per month account maintanace fee....
HMD Global launches Android 13 Developer Preview Program for Nokia X20
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has revealed that the Android TM 13 Developer Preview Program is live on the Nokia X20. It is expected to enable applicati...
Zuri Health raises Ksh. 151 Million in a pre-seed funding round
Zuri Health, a digital healthcare company has managed to raise Ksh. 151 Million ($1.3 Million) in a pre-seed funding round. They attracted investment from DOB E...
LinkedIn announces a raise in rates due to the introduction of VAT
LinkedIn has announced an increase in membership fees and rates on the back of implementation of the 16 percent value-added tax (VAT) on digital transactions.
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Stanchart reports a Ksh. 2.7 Billion net profit for Q1 2022
Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya has reported a Ksh. 2.7 Billion for the first three months of the year. This represent a 16% rise in profitability as compared ...
LG has launched Gram 2022 series of laptops
LG Electronics (LG) has announced the global launch of its 2022 LG gram lineup of premium laptops which features seven new models.
The seven include;
g...
Absa Bank to sponsor the East Africa Property Investment Summit
Over 300 real estate stakeholders from Africa and other parts of the world will gather in Nairobi on the 18th and 19th of May 2022 for the East Africa Property ...
CDSC to start charging investors Ksh. 100 as account maintenance fee
In a new development, investors at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will start being charged a Ksh. 100 monthly charge on their stock market accounts. Thi...
CarePoint, a healthcare startup raises Ksh. 1.1 Billion for expansion across Africa
CarePoint, a technology-driven healthcare startup, has raised $10 million bridge round to accelerate its growth across Africa, as it seeks to make healthcare ac...
Muriithi Gatu and Rohini Shah emerge as the winners of the 7th leg of Safaricom Golf Tour Junior Tournament
Muriithi Gatu a 9-year-old from Limuru and Vetlab-based 12-year-old Rohini Shah have been crowned the overall winners of the seventh leg of the Safaricom Golf...
Twiga Foods launches a Ksh. 1.1 Billion farming subsidiary in a bid to lower food costs
Twiga Foods, a B2B E-Commerce company has launched Twiga Fresh, a new subsidiary that is focused on modern and commercial farming. This is expected to help supp...
Don Riaroh emerges as the overall winner in the Karen leg of Safaricom Golf Tour
Don Riaroh has been named the overall winner of the seventh leg of the Safaricom Golf Tour held at
the par 72 Karen Country Club course.
Playing off handica...
Jambojet partners with Kenya Tourism Board to launch a campaign in a bid to drive domestic travel
Jambojet has partnered with Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) to launch a 3-month campaign dubbed #NowTravelReady, #TembeaKenya’ to encourage more Kenyans to tour loc...
Safaricom reports a net profit of Ksh. 67.5 Billion for the full year ended March 2022
Safaricom has posted a net profit of Ksh. 67.49 Billion for the full year ended March 2022. According to the telco, this was due to the impact of KES 4.66 Billi...
Safaricom Foundation has donated a boat ambulance to King Fahad Referral Hospital in Lamu County
Safaricom Foundation has donated a Ksh. 9.5 Million boat ambulance to King Fahad Referral Hospital in Lamu County to help deal with medical emergencies.
The am...
CCI Global contact centre at Tatu City to employ 4,000 people
CCI Global, the largest international contact centre operator in Africa, is expected to move to a purpose built, state-of-the-art office in Tatu City, creating ...
Boston Consulting Group has released its annual sustainability report
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has released “A Time to Lead: 2021 Annual Sustainability Report. The firm’s latest report details how BCG is stepping up to respon...
Zamara launches financial literacy programme for schools
Zamara Kenya has announced that it has launched financial literacy programme for parents and teachers to teach them to save for pensions and plan for retirement...
Sankore Pitch Competition Tour for blockchain startups to be held on May 14; Here’s how to apply
The Sankore Pitch Competition Tour will be held on May 14 2022 and is targeting startups building solutions in the blockchain space.
The 2nd Edition of the c...
Safari Air Express launches weekly direct flights to Lodwar
Kenyan domestic airline, East African Safari Air Express, has announced that it has launched weekly direct flights to Lodwar, in Turkana County.
The direct ...
Sasai Fintech’s digital wallet has secured GSMA compliance approval for merchant payments and bulk disbursements
Sasai Fintech a business of Cassava Technologies, Africa’s first integrated technology company of continental scale, has been awarded the compliance approval fo...
Purple Dot International to set up Ksh. 600 million warehouse facility in Athi River for lights industries
Purple Dot International has announced that it plans to set up a Ksh. 600 million warehouse facility for light industries in Athi River, Machakos County.
Pu...
UNESCO has partnered with Huawei to deliver Campus UNESCO for young people in 20 countries
So far, UNESCO and Huawei have organized ten Campus UNESCO sessions, focusing on technology and education, reaching students from 39 schools in 20 countries.
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How ERP solutions can give manufacturers and distributors the control that they require across the supply chain
Disruptions across the supply chain are inescapable. Different parts of the world have experienced supply chain disruptions at different times due to different ...
Zoho Marketing Plus launched to bring various marketing activities under one roof
Zoho Corporation has launched Zoho Marketing Plus, a unified platform that brings together various marketing activities under one roof. It includes campaign ide...
How the Junior Golf Foundation & Safaricom are enabling Nelson Okoth’s dream of becoming a professional golfer
It is now about four months since the Safaricom Golf Tour kicked off and during this time, I have had the pleasure of meeting people from different backgrounds ...
Kenyatta National Hospital receives hospital beds donation from Madison Life Assurance
Madison Life Assurance Kenya has donated 10 double crank beds to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in support of the hospital's Adopt a Bed initiative.
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The Safaricom Golf Tour heads to Karen Country Club for the 7th leg of the series
The seventh leg of the Safaricom Golf Tour will be happening this Friday and Saturday at the Karen Country Club par 72 course.
The event follows the sixth leg...
IFC sponsored KKCF Business Competition announces 40 winners from Turkana County
Kakuma Kalobeyei Challenge Fund (KKCF) business competition has announced the first 40 winners in the competition sponsored by IFC and supported by The Africa E...
Whistleblower Daniel Motaung sues Facebook & Sama for forced labour & human rights abuses
Whistleblower Daniel Motaung sues Facebook & its agent, Sama, for human trafficking, forced labour and human rights abuses. More than 10 government and NGOs...
Miriam Tamar & GNL Zamba to launch The Nsimbi Podcast on culture, race & identity on May 11
Miriam Tamar and GNL Zamba, together known as Nsimbi, have announced that they will launch The Nsimbi Podcast on culture, race & identity on May 11 2022.
...
Kenya’s Sendy, Pula & Access Afya named as Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum
Kenya's Sendy, Pula Advisors and Access Afya has been recognized as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers for 2022.
The World Economic Forum ...
Nigerian TV show Blood Sisters makes it to Netflix’s top ten Global list of TV shows
Nigeria’s Netflix original TV Blood Sisters has become a hit with audiences and is now on Netflix’s top ten Global list of TV shows.
Apparently, the TV show ...
The 2022 Safal Cornell Kiswahili Prize launched; call for submissions open
The 2020 Safal Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature has announced the call for submissions of manuscripts for its 7th edition. Submissions close on Ju...
EFG Hermes named as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022
EFG Hermes Holding has been named named as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022 by the Financial Times and Statista.
The company has been featur...
Kenya’s Buruklyn Boyz among African musicians to join Spotify’s batch of RADAR artists
Kenya's Buruklyn Boyz has been announced as one of 6 African musicians to join Spotify's global batch of RADAR artists, a programme dedicated to the spotlight a...
Huawei launches employment program to hire top talent as it grows its business globally
Huawei has announced as that it intends to recruit more employees as it grows its business in Kenya and globally through a new program.
Huawei technologies p...
ROAM Jobs rebrands to The African Talent Company to bridge the talent gap in Africa
Expands mandate to include offline recruitment, outsourcing and e-learning in a move to consolidate the pan-African recruitment market
Africa’s recruitment c...
Glovo sets up Kibanda Bubble to enable more small restaurants to sign up on the platform
Glovo has announced that it has set up a partnership with small restaurants, popularly known as Kibandas, to enable more of them to sell their food on the platf...
Rihanna to launch Fenty Beauty products in the Kenyan market on May 27
Rihanna the musician and businesswoman has announced that she will be launching her Fenty Beauty and Skincare products in the Kenyan market on May 27 2022.
R...