- The automotive technology company facilitating auto financing across Africa, Autochek has expanded to Francophone Africa after acquiring CoinAfrique, a
- Zimbabwe will this month start selling gold coins as a store of value at a time its currency is weakening considerably, pushing the cost of living beyond the
- Kenya's Duhqa, a B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods in FMCG, Cold Chain and Pharmaceuticals, has raised $2 million in its seed funding
- Gambia and World Bank signed a $68 million grant on Tuesday to revive the ocean-facing West African country's tourism sector, representatives of both parties
- Kenya’s private sector continued to decline in June as PMI survey data signalled a decline in business output and new customer orders amid rising price
- Tea farmers allied to the Kenya Tea Development Authority( KTDA) have received a record payment of Sh62.89 in the year ending June, the highest ever payment
- Ekaterra Tea Kenya PLC (Unilever Tea) has made a proposal to shareholders of Limuru Tea Plc to acquire up to 100% of the ordinary shares in the share capital
- Kenya has surpassed South Africa to become Africa’s top exporter of avocados. In the central region in particular, where the majority of the country’s
- With the goal of supporting an inclusive financial system that contributes to prosperity for all, mobile-first blockchain ecosystem Celo launches a new
- Many phone apps allow you to sell goods and services or shop to earn extra cash. Additionally, some apps make you earn just for staying fit. For instance,
- Worldremit a UK-based International money transfer service, has ceased its operations in Uganda barely a month after saying it will no longer be offering bank
- The construction of the electricity interconnectors linking Kenya’s transmission lines to the Ethiopian and Tanzanian national power grids will be completed
- Car loans with shorter terms tend to have higher monthly payments. However, if you're not willing to deal with the high monthly payments, an extended
- The Kenyan Government has officially launched the Nairobi International Financial Centre (NIFC), a flagship initiative under the economic pillar of Kenya’s
- The weekly Mombasa Tea Auction held on 27th, 28th, and 29th June 2022 had 13 million kilograms of tea offered for sale. The amount on offer decreased from
- The State has adopted a new law in the finance act 2022 allowing it to use half of the proceeds of a tax on fuel imports to secure loans for the maintenance,
- KRA has excluded Kenyans with personal and economic interests abroad from the mandatory payment of local tax even if they stayed in the country for an entire
- Somalia said on Sunday it had awarded licences to two foreign banks as the troubled Horn of Africa nation opens up the industry to international lenders.
- The Central Bank of Kenya(CBK) received bids amounting to KSh 8.9 billion at the Weekly Treasury Bills Auction, an undersubscription of 37.14%, with amounts
- Tesla Inc. said on Saturday the company's production in June was the highest in Tesla's history, although it fell 15.3% to 258,580 vehicles from the first
- USAID will arrange a $30 million package which will in part help Zambia boost food exports to two east African countries suffering from surging prices due to
- The Kenya Women in Insurance Association has been launched with the aim of creating a platform to promote the representation of women in the insurance
- The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has the potential to bring significant economic and social gains for the continent and lead to higher
- Kenya's real gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 6.8% year-on-year in Q1 2022, the highest first quarter level in 12 years, according to data issued by the
- Airtel Africa, as announce the launch of SmartCash Payment Service Bank, its wholly-owned subsidiary, to provide secure and reliable financial services across
- Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with iBizAfrica have unveiled the ten startups that will be joining a 12 week incubation program and a chance to secure
- A lot of people struggle with this question: what can I invest in? With the many investment options available, it is difficult to decide what to invest in.
- France's inflation in June climbed further from the previous month to a record high of 5.8%, from 5.2% in May. The harmonised index is now at 6.5%, compared
- French-Dutch airline, Air France KLM is repaying the last portion of loans it got from from the Netherlands government and banks to help it survive the
- Rwanda has landed a deal to establish a pharmaceutical body, funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB), to support the region in the making of vaccines,
- The government of Kenya has placed 6th August 2022 as the deadline for importing maize by all those interested, while the recently announced tax waivers are
- Millers have said plans by Agriculture Cabinet secretary Peter Munya to suspend all levies imposed on imported maize in pursuit of lower cost of the staple
- The Treasury has cut the value-added tax (VAT) charged on cooking gas by half, giving consumers a major relief amid rising global commodity prices and other
- Annual inflation accelerated to 7.9% in June from 7.1% a month earlier, the Nairobi-based Kenya National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday in an emailed
- Shell has suspended plans to sell its onshore oil assets in Nigeria until the outcome of an appeal to a Supreme Court ruling over a 2019 oil spill, it said on
- Egypt is set to receive $500 million from the World Bank to boost its food security that has been jeopardised by the war between its main suppliers, Russia
- Jambojet has raked in sales worth KSh11 million since it launched cargo operations in Goma in January this year, after receiving regulatory approvals from the
- Southbridge A&I, Salient Advisory, and SCIDaR have partnered to launch i3, a $7 million programme that seeks to provide 30 African e-health startups with
- World Bank has extended a KSh390 million facility to 14 firms in 14 counties, seeking to use solar energy to light up areas not on the national grid, and
