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He quit a high-paying job to build a start-up linking students to foreign universities

Nairobi, July 9 -- Manish Sardana walked away from a lucrative corporate career at the height of the Covid-19 scourge, resigning from global advertising giant WPP after seven years in Kenya. He had r... Read More


Kenya can't afford another Telkom experiment

Nairobi, July 9 -- Word from a well-placed insider: the government is about to go shopping, again, for a strategic investor to run and refinance Telkom Kenya. It is the height of irony that a multibil... Read More


DCI to probe Sh6.2bn State payroll fraud

Nairobi, July 9 -- The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has formally taken over investigations into the suspected Sh6.2 billion payroll fraud in the public service, following the handover ... Read More


Power of local innovation in expanding healthcare among rural communities

Nairobi, July 9 -- The birth of my first child in 2018 revealed how unreliable electricity can undermine healthcare in rural Kenya. Frequent power outages disrupted vaccine storage, forcing families t... Read More


KQ gets second Dubai landing slot in battle against Emirates

Nairobi, July 9 -- Kenya Airways (KQ) has secured a second landing slot at Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic, allowing it to launch a second ... Read More


How Master's student secured Sh1.5 billion to build solar business in Kenya

Nairobi, July 9 -- When Jonas Barman, a 40-year-old Swedish engineer, first came to Kenya, the idea of starting a solar energy company was far from his mind. In fact, he was looking for a school roof ... Read More


KRA to ditch Excel for web-based tax filing system

Nairobi, July 9 -- The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) plans to overhaul the income tax return filing infrastructure by abandoning the Excel file download and adopting use of a web-based system as it se... Read More


Kenya to raise Sh129.2 billion from climate-linked loans

Nairobi, July 9 -- Kenya is aiming to raise Sh129.2 billion ($1 billion) from the issuance of sustainability-linked instruments, including loans and bonds, over the next two years as the country pushe... Read More


How Kenya's fee-for-service model prioritises costly treatment over prevention

Nairobi, July 8 -- At any given moment, somewhere in Kenya, a woman is receiving a chronic disease diagnosis at a stage where treatment is no longer a single outpatient procedure, but rather months of... Read More


CMA to monitor crypto deals with new system

Nairobi, July 8 -- Kenya plans to acquire a blockchain analytics system to monitor cryptocurrency transactions and help investigate suspicious activity, its first major regulatory step following the e... Read More