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Taxpayers' Sh448m annual burden in running Uhuru, Awori, Kalonzo offices

Nairobi, May 7 -- Aides of former President Uhuru Kenyatta and former vice-presidents Moody Awori and Kalonzo Musyoka are paid in excess of Sh100 million at taxpayers' expense, underlining the burden ... Read More


BAT Kenya tobacco farmers' earnings up to Sh1.4bn

Nairobi, May 7 -- Farmers contracted by BAT Kenya were paid Sh1.4 billion for their delivery of tobacco leaf last year, with their earnings from the cigarette manufacturer rising 27 percent from Sh1.1... Read More


Digital finance must move beyond access to deliver resilience

Nairobi, May 7 -- Kenya's digital finance story is often celebrated as a global benchmark for inclusion, and rightly so. Over the past decade, mobile money and digital financial services have brought ... Read More


Enforce beneficial ownership rules to beat graft

Nairobi, May 7 -- Legal persons and arrangements play a critical role as drivers of economies all over the world. However, these legal structures may be abused for corruption and money laundering amon... Read More


The new front door: How AI is reshaping healthcare advertising

Nairobi, May 7 -- The "digital front door" represents a radical shift toward a new and permanent way of managing the patient experience. Much like the invention of the steam engine, the light bulb and... Read More


Safaricom first Kenyan firm to cross Sh100bn profit mark

Nairobi, May 7 -- A smaller loss in Ethiopia and M-Pesa's double-digit growth helped Safaricom report a 36.9 percent jump in profits, making the Kenyan unit the first to cross the Sh100 billion mark i... Read More


Stanbic Bank posts 5.5pc profit rise to Sh3.5bn in first quarter

Nairobi, May 7 -- Stanbic Bank Kenya has reported a 5.5 percent growth in net profit for the first quarter ended March when the benefits of lower costs and provisions for bad debts were eroded by a he... Read More


Diversification of the economy to speed up economic transformation

Nairobi, May 7 -- The exuberance of Kenya becoming a newly industrialised middle-income country as envisaged in the Vision 2030 has been gradually dimming. Retrospectively, the dwindling marginal con... Read More


Treasury avoids IMF loans in new budget

Nairobi, May 7 -- Kenya has omitted funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the national budget for the year starting July in the wake of uncertainty whether fresh talks tied to tough co... Read More


Kenya unites to power inclusive AI for persons with disabilities

Nairobi, May 6 -- On April 24, at the Kasarani grounds of the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), tech leaders and disability advocates came together for conversations around enhancing the av... Read More