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- 24 Oct 2025 - Standard Group journalist Rosa Agutu has won the television and overall OFAB-Kenya, Media Awards, 2025, in recognition of her excellence in science and innovation reporting.
- 24 Oct 2025 - President William Ruto-led regime insists that it is tightening fiscal discipline to plug a widening budget deficit.
- 24 Oct 2025 - South Africa’s gold industry is drawing renewed investor confidence as a new wave of funding flows into high-grade projects across the country. The latest is a US$6 million…
- 24 Oct 2025 - OCT 24 – US President Donald Trump has said he will halt all trade negotiations with Canada immediately over an advert in which his predecessor Ronald Reagan says tariffs “…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Kenyan lenders paid Sh38.5 in taxes for every Sh100 profit earned in 2024, new industry data shows. According to the Kenya Banking Sector Total Tax…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Ethiopia has projected an ambitious 10.2% economic growth for its 2025/26 fiscal year, reinforcing its position as one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.
- 24 Oct 2025 - KMPDU Secretary-General Davji Atellah confirmed the news.
- 24 Oct 2025 - The plan is to include six toll stations along the Nairobi–Nakuru–Mau Summit (A8) section and two more on the Nairobi–Mai Mahiu–Naivasha (A8 South) route.
- 24 Oct 2025 - MOSCOW, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — New U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies will not significantly impact Russia’s economic health, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Kenyan banks paid Sh194.81 billion in taxes to the National Treasury in the year ended December 31, 2024, underscoring their significant…
- 24 Oct 2025 - The rise of digital banking has sparked a restructuring across South Africa (and Africa’s) leading financial institutions, all of whom are striving to adapt. Even digital-…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Burkina Faso is advancing a new bill aimed at tightening regulatory oversight of high-earning companies by requiring all firms with annual revenues of at least CFA5 billion…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Fuel prices are among the most important economic indicators in any nation, but they have a particularly noticeable effect on Africa, where energy and transportation costs…
- 24 Oct 2025 - CBK (Central Bank of Kenya), the State fiscal agent, has invited bids for Re-opened 20yr. and 15yr. Treasury Bonds, whose purpose is to raise KSh 40 Billion for budgetary…
- 24 Oct 2025 - ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — China has become the fourth-largest importer of Ethiopian coffee, up from seventh position two years ago, said Shafi Umer, deputy director…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Absa Bank Uganda has signed an agreement to acquire Standard Chartered Bank Uganda’s Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) business portfolio, expanding…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Sasra says some external auditors are either failing to submit the statutory report or filing it beyond the required window of four months.
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Africa has become a testing ground for the world’s most advanced cyberattacks, according to Microsoft’s 2025 Digital Defense Report, which warns…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Leading real estate development company Superior Homes Kenya has announced changes within its leadership team, with Chief Executive Officer Shiv … ContinuedThe post Changes…
- 24 Oct 2025 - The workers argue that the layoffs are causing 'total disorder' and leaving them 'in limbo'.
- 24 Oct 2025 - By Esther Murigi The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has officially been granted the mandate to regulate cryptocurrency activities in Kenya … ContinuedThe post New…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Both domestic and international flights in Kenya are set to be hit with an air ticket levy, following a bill recently signed by the country’s president, William Ruto.
- 24 Oct 2025 - By Robai Ludenyi President William Ruto has moved to calm down critics who accused him of secretly signing several bills … ContinuedThe post President Ruto Dismisses Claims…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Nigeria is set to reclaim its place among Africa’s top three largest economies, according to new projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which forecast a…
- 24 Oct 2025 - By Robai Ludenyi Religious leaders and human rights defenders in Naivasha have asked the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to … ContinuedThe post Church Leaders…
- 24 Oct 2025 - When many people think of breast cancer, they imagine it as a disease that mostly affects older women. Yet doctors … ContinuedThe post The Changing Face of Breast Cancer:…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Kenya’s live music economy is staging a strong comeback, in tandem with the broader rebound of Africa’s entertainment scene and the return of audiences to in-person events…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Kenya’s entertainment and media market is breaking new ground as digital consumption reshapes the country’s cultural and economic landscape. The latest PwC Africa…
- 24 Oct 2025 - OCT 24 – Afua Kyei, the Bank of England’s chief financial officer, has been named the UK’s most influential black person. The 43-year-old is one of the UK’s most senior…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Motorists will pay Sh8 per kilometer to use the Rironi–Mau Summit Expressway once its expansion to a dual carriageway is complete, the Kenya…
- 24 Oct 2025 - OCT 24 – Just 37 years old, Chen Zhi is accused of being “the mastermind behind a sprawling cyber-fraud empire… a criminal enterprise built on human suffering”. With his…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Morocco plans to eliminate coal-fired power generation by 2040, provided it secures sufficient international climate finance, the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) said on…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – Soap-maker PZ Cussons East Africa has announced plans to invest Sh150 million over the next year to boost production, distribution, and innovation,…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Kenya’s entertainment and media (E&M) industry is set for strong growth over the next five years, with the country’s internet advertising market projected to be the…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – About 86,000 school-going children in Kenya suffer from uncorrected vision problems such as short-sightedness, long-sightedness, and astigmatism,…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Kenya’s domestic debt program remains ahead of schedule as the Treasury reopens two long-term bonds, FXD1/2012/020 and FXD1/2022/015, to raise KSh 40 billion. The proceeds…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Africa now produces a higher share of women STEM * graduates than any other region in the world, but they continue to face sharp barriers in career advancement and access to…
- 24 Oct 2025 - There is a lot Kenya can learn from India’s success, even with its traditional systems, about rooting its ambition to become a choice medical tourism destination in the…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Africa’s mobile technology sector pumped an impressive $220 billion into the continent’s GDP in 2024, accounting for 7.7% of total output, according to the Mobile Economy…
- 24 Oct 2025 - By Amy Hogan-Burney NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 – In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data — a trend driven…
- 24 Oct 2025 - APA Microinsurance, in partnership with VisionFund Kenya, the financial empowerment and livelihoods subsidiary of World Vision International, and …
- 24 Oct 2025 - oct 24 – US President Donald Trump has said he is immediately ending all trade negotiations with Canada. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that the country had run an…
- 24 Oct 2025 - NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 22 – Tatu City has started an After-School Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program to help young students gain digital and coding skills. The program is…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Tatu City, Africa’s leading new city on Nairobi’s doorstep, has officially launched its After-School Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program under Tatu … ContinuedThe post Tatu…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Coca-Cola Co. expects to book an impairment charge of about $1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 as it prepares to sell part of its ownership in its African bottling…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Just weeks after uniting to change the life of Kaluma Boy, a young content creator from Othaya who went viral for selflessly caring for his ailing father, a group of Kenyan…
- 24 Oct 2025 - China Road and Bridge Corporation is inching closer to clinching the deal to construct the Rironi-Mau Summit toll road after the other firm that had bid was knocked out.
- 24 Oct 2025 - Players in the pension sector have backed the amendment of the law to mandate the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to collect unremitted contributions that have ballooned to…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Imagine traveling to a foreign country and being able to make all transactions in the local currency of your host … ContinuedThe post Take Control Of Your Global Lifestyle…
- 24 Oct 2025 - Computing infrastructure behemoth Nvidia Corporation has taken a deeper step into Africa’s emerging digital infrastructure market through an investment in Cassava…