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What it takes to cook for a president

Nairobi, July 28 -- For three years, Evans George spent long days and late nights preparing banquet dinners, soups and other meals for presidents, the First Family, diplomats and visiting dignitaries.... Read More


StanChart pays 522 pensioners amid new claims from former employees

Nairobi, July 28 -- Standard Chartered Bank Kenya has paid pension claims to 522 out of 629 pensioners following settlement of a long-drawn petition by former workers by the Supreme Court last year. ... Read More


Investors pour Sh181bn into three-month T-Bills

Nairobi, July 28 -- Investors splashed Sh181.4 billion into three-month Treasury bills over the past 10 weeks, presenting the National Treasury with a cash crunch headache as debt falls due in Mid-Aug... Read More


Court freezes recruitment for Kenya Re top positions

Nairobi, July 28 -- The High Court has temporarily halted recruitment of at least 12 senior management and professional positions at the Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (Kenya Re) pending determination ... Read More


Safaricom Ethiopia reaches 14.7m customers in race to profitability

Nairobi, July 28 -- Safaricom Ethiopia reached 14.7 million active customers in June this year, boosting its drive towards attaining profitability at the EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreci... Read More


World's biggest tournament has a bigger digital problem

The reason is simple, July 27 -- Sports piracy today bears little resemblance to the occasional illegal stream that frustrated broadcasters a decade ago. It has become a sophisticated global enterpris... Read More


Audit flags drugs distributed to hospitals without proof of tests

Nairobi, July 27 -- An audit has revealed that medical drugs were distributed to public hospitals without proof of mandatory quality testing in the financial year ending June 2025, marking a second su... Read More


More wealthy Kenyans buy second homes in Johannesburg instead of New York

Nairobi, July 27 -- For decades, the address mattered as much as the house itself. If Kenya's wealthy bought a second home abroad, chances were it overlooked Manhattan's skyline, London's parks or Dub... Read More


Africa's food insecurity has eased; make the gains hard to reverse

Nairobi, July 27 -- Across Africa last year, fewer people were uncertain about obtaining adequate food or were forced to reduce the quality and quantity of what they ate. The hunger rate fell for the ... Read More


Firms to reveal litigation history, anti-graft oaths in proposed law on public contracts

Nairobi, July 27 -- Kenya will ask firms to reveal their litigation history and anti-corruption oaths before they are contracted for unsolicited public-private partnership (PPP) in the aftermath of th... Read More