Kenya’s coffee sector just posted its best numbers in years. Sh41 billion. Forty-seven million kilogrammes. A 15 percent jump from the previous year’s Sh35.6 billion. On paper, this looks like a win. But if you’re a smallholder farmer in Meru…
Mobile money giants M-Pesa and Airtel Money will be legally required to immediately disclose cyber incidents — including mobile money fraud and hacking attacks — to the Central Bank of Kenya under sweeping new regulatory proposals designed to protect millions…
The Work Was Done. The Money Never Came. Imagine showing up to teach, doing the work, marking the papers, and then waiting — not for weeks, not for months, but for an entire decade — to be paid. That is…
People are dying. Not on a battlefield, not from a disease with a complicated name — they are dying in Kiambu and Kirinyaga because someone, somewhere, mixed chemicals in a backroom and sold the result as alcohol. Deputy President Kithure…
The Money Is Already Moving Before a single barrel of oil flows through the proposed Lamu refinery, the contracts are already flying — and the early winners are not Kenyan firms. The Sh2.1 trillion Dangote Industries refinery project, designed to…
The Ground Beneath Their Feet Long before Aliko Dangote’s billions arrived in Lamu, the people of Chandavai were already there. They farmed the land. They buried their dead in it. They built mosques and homes on it. For generations, this…
Something is quietly breaking inside Kenya Power’s business model, and the numbers don’t lie. Despite connecting more Kenyans to the national grid, the utility giant is watching revenue from new customers collapse — down a staggering Sh1.07 billion in the…
The Pitch Kenya Made to the World While most Kenyans were grinding through another week of high costs and economic uncertainty, President William Ruto was in New York at the 81st United Nations General Assembly, making promises on their behalf.…
Your county government flew its officials to Dubai and Singapore to learn “emotional intelligence” — while leaving local suppliers owed a combined Ksh.172 billion. This is not a rumour. It is the official finding of Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o,…
Here is what tax evasion looks like in practice: you import over 55,000 smartphones, tell the Kenya Revenue Authority you only brought in 3,000, and hope nobody checks the boxes. Someone almost pulled it off. The Kenya Revenue Authority has…
