By Michael Mutiga, Chief Business Development & Strategy Officer, Safaricom In an era dominated by headlines about artificial intelligence (AI), digital finance and immersive realities, voice communication may appear to be losing... Read more »
CBK Governor Kamau Thugge before the National Assembly Committee on Finance and National Planning at Bunge Towers, Nairobi, on March 25, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Major commercial banks are... Read more »
U.S. Threatens to Deport Salvadoran Man to Uganda After He Rejected Plea Deal Less than 24 hours after his release, U.S. authorities told Kilmar Ábrego García that he could be deported... Read more »
BEIJING, China, Aug 25 — China and Pakistan should take their all-weather strategic partnership into a new stage, with fresh momentum in modernization, regional connectivity and people-to-people exchanges, as the China-Pakistan Economic... Read more »
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 24 – Rights groups have called on the Office of the Attorney General to urgently amend Part VI of the Prisons Act to address threats and violations faced by... Read more »
Nairobi — Kiambu’s Uthiru Location Chief has stirred public debate after calling for the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, arguing that its abolition has fueled indiscipline and moral decay among young... Read more »
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 24 – Kenya’s leadership of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti is facing uncertainty as the United States pushes for a new United Nations-backed framework that could... Read more »
President William Ruto’s cash-strapped administration has secured a vital endorsement after the global rating agency S&P upgraded Kenya’s credit rating.
The surprise decision, analysts said, will provide immediate debt-cost relief but falls short of solving... Read more »
Addis Abeba — The Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi has issued an apology and clarification after publishing, and later deleting, a statement on its official page regarding the establishment of a new administrative... Read more »
Nollywood, Nigeria’s prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century. These low-budget, high-output films and TV series immediately... Read more »