Kenya
Vai alla Scheda Paese »There comes a time when the nation is more important than an individual.
— George Saitoti
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Business: US aircraft maker Boeing opens Kenyan office
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has announced the opening of a new office in Nairobi. The move, the Chicago-based firm said in a statement yesterday, marks a significant milestone in its global expansion plan.
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Business: Resolution Health Insurance opens new Kitengela branch
Resolution Insurance Kenya Managing Director Alice Mwai said the move is also aimed at bringing insurance solutions closer to customers.
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Business: Foreign investment at bourse falls in February
Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) recorded a negative foreign investment performance in February.
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Business: KRA cargo tracking system sounds death knell for tax evaders
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has launched a cargo tracking system aimed at sealing tax evasion loopholes all the way to Rwanda and Uganda.
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Business: New headache for State as food prices hit the roof
The latest figures released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) put food inflation at 16.5 per cent, the highest since 2012.
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Business: Investor ignorance takes shine off Stanlib REIT
Kenya's first Real Estate Trust (REIT) suffered from lack of investor knowledge and negative performance at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), experts say.
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MPs cut budgets to cater for lecturers, doctors strike and drought
MPs have cut budgets of key state departments to cater for the ongoing lecturers and doctors' strikes and the drought. Doctors downed their tools on December 5 last year saying theirs would be the longest strike in Kenya's history. Lecturers took their action on January 19 and have also said ...
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KRA’s cargo tracking system to cut trade cost, curb tax evasion
Kenya has joined Uganda and Rwanda to launch a common cargo tracking system intended to reduce the cost of trade and check tax evasion.
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Coffee price drops 17pc as low quality beans hit Nairobi exchange
Coffee prices at the Nairobi auction declined by 17.3 per cent in this week’s sales, weighed down by low quality berries.
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Can’t a Luo have a big state job? Nyanza MPs trash Ouko petition
MPs have lashed at a light-touch petition by a Nairobi lawyer seeking the removal of Auditor General Edward Ouko terming it a 'fishing expedition." Members of the Finance, Planning and Trade Committee launched a stinging attack on the petition filed by Emmanuel Mwagambo as they got down to business on ...
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Willie Kimani’s colleagues frantically searched for him
A witness on Tuesday tearfully narrated the frantic efforts they made as they tried to trace missing lawyer Willy Kimani and two others the night they disappeared.Kimani, his client Josphat Mwendwa and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri had attended a case at the Mavoko law courts on June 23, after which ...
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Business: Could Kenya's Courier & Delivery Industry be next in line for Digital disruption?
If global trends are anything to go by, then I'd predict that Kenya's Courier & Delivery business is up next for the digital disruption.
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Kiambu shuts Thika Stadium to NASA rally
Thika Stadium is out of bounds for political events, at least for now, to allow for renovations. Kiambu Sports executive Machel Waikenda yesterday said the stadium has been closed for construction and renovations. NASA had planned to hold its maiden rally in Central in the stadium on Saturday. NASA ...
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East Africa: Uganda, Kenya Send Officials to China for Railway Money
[Monitor] Kampala -Uganda's Finance minister Matia Kasaija and his Kenyan counterpart are yet to get confirmation of the specific dates for further negotiations and possible financial closure from China's ministry of Commerce which supervises EXIM Bank, the prospective financier of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), Daily Monitor has learnt.
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Kenya: EACC: County Assemblies to publish integrity codes or face disciplinary action
County Assemblies across the Country are in breach of the constitution and could face tough disciplinary action for failing to publish their Integrity and leadership codes as required by the law.
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Business: 3,000 state workers go without pay for two months
Employees of the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro) have not received their pay for two months, and through their trade union, have petitioned the ministries of Agriculture and Finance to settle their January salaries.
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Business: Cash remains popular mode of payment despite growth in digital payments
A new report from Financial Sector Deeping (FSD Kenya) indicates more than 92 per cent of people working in the country's agriculture sector and 94.6 per cent of entrepreneurs receive their payments in cash. Further, 43.3 per cent of consumers in formal employment receive their payments in cash.
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Business: Nestlé Kenya launches reformulated 3in1 nescafe coffee sachets
Speaking at the launch of the new 3in1, Nestlé East Africa's Ciru Miring'u said consumption of coffee in Kenya had grown tremendously, with Nairobi now hosting 10 times more coffee outlets than it did five years ago. Globally, more than 5,500 cups of Nescafé, which was launched in 1938, are ...
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Business: Uchumi's painful road to recovery as low sales and debt hurt earnings
According to the company's latest financials, it received Sh342 million for the prime property in Nairobi, which was sold for an estimated Sh1.4 billion.
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Kenya: Kabarak University to take on Harvard and Stanford in business competition
The university will take on top world-ranking universities like Harvard, London School of Economics, Stanford, Instead, Hult International Business School, NYU, Colombia and American University Beirut, LBS Hitotutsubashi, KAUST and Makerere University.
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Uber shuts Westlands hub over unruly drivers
Embattled taxi-hailing company Uber has vacated its representative office in Nairobi in what is linked to failure to contain last week's strike by its drivers. It emerged the firm was forced to leave its office at The Mirage in Westlands by the landlord, Uber vehemently denied the allegation it ...