The Numbers Don’t Lie Over Ksh.363 million allegedly walked out of First Assurance Investment Company Limited over six years, and nobody — not the banks, not the board, not the regulators — apparently noticed. Or if they did, nobody said…
London Distillers (K) Ltd must pay Sh517 million in excise taxes after the Court of Appeal upheld the Kenya Revenue Authority’s refusal to honour a National Treasury directive that would have wiped out 80 percent of the company’s tax liability…
The Heist Nobody Was Supposed to Notice South Africa’s Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa) has handed more than R1 billion in public funds to politically connected security companies linked to ANC stalwart Paul Langa — bypassing competitive tenders, ignoring court orders,…
The Numbers Don’t Lie — But the Government Hopes You Won’t Notice Kenya’s inflation hit 6.5 percent in July — the second-highest reading in two and a half years. That figure sounds clinical, bureaucratic, distant. It isn’t. It is the…
Something significant is coming to Nairobi this October, and it’s not another donor-funded conference where officials shake hands, take photos, and fly home with nothing changed. The Africa Commerce and Industry Summit — ACIS 2026 — is shaping up to…
The Numbers Don’t Lie — And Neither Does Your Empty Stomach Here is the uncomfortable truth: across Africa, governments are failing to feed their people, and the statistics coming out of South Africa right now are a warning siren that…
The Region Is Making a Big Bet East Africa’s central bank governors just made a bold move. They’ve committed to accelerating the long-stalled dream of a single regional currency by 2031 — and they’re backing that ambition with a hard,…
The Government Wants Supermarkets to Police Manufacturers. Retailers Say That’s Not Their Job. Every morning, lorries roll into supermarket loading bays across Kenya carrying thousands of factory-sealed products — cooking oil, bottled water, packaged foods, detergents. Retail clerks count boxes,…
The system keeps telling young Kenyans to save more. But what if saving isn’t actually the point right now? The Guilt Trip Nobody Asked For For decades, the financial establishment has pointed fingers at young people and called it wisdom.…
The United States just moved the goalposts again, and this time the justification is forced labour. The Trump administration announced new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on 60 trading partners — including the European Union — set to kick in…
