News, public services, opportunities and accountability reporting from Nairobi.
Kenya’s digital story is often told as a triumph of invention, but the harder lesson may be institutional: the region’s biggest constraint is not a shortage of ideas or capital, but the ability to coordinate across government, business and...
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the African Union’s planned credit ratings agency, arguing that Africa needs ratings built on local economic realities rather than assumptions imported from outside the continent. The move comes a...
At a Nairobi summit, Kenyan officials, educators and innovators called for stronger links between classrooms, research, business and investment so more women can move from STEM education into leadership roles in science and technology.
Kenya has moved to open duty-free import windows for both white maize for human consumption and yellow maize for animal feed, but the scale and sequencing of the interventions are prompting scrutiny over whether the government has clearly d...
A new wave of VPN marketing is again promising users both privacy and high performance. Independent consumer testing and VPN-makers’ own technical explanations suggest that speed often comes down to the protocol and the network behind it, w...
Kenya has unveiled a detailed carbon market rule book that limits how many emission credits can be sold abroad, aiming to protect its climate targets while making project approvals more predictable.
A World Bank-backed assessment says Kenya’s Port of Mombasa could do far more than move cargo: with the right upgrades, it could anchor manufacturing, exports and jobs across East Africa. The opportunity is real, but the infrastructure, log...
A new profile of Kenyan Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua traces how a childhood spent watching aircraft over Riruta Satellite grew into a licensed piloting career — a story of discipline, access, and persistence that also reflects Kenya’s wid...
Kenya’s new police uniform rollout has triggered fresh scrutiny after reporting found the main supplier’s office could not be traced and its registered address overlapped with businesses linked to President William Ruto’s family. Officials...
A fresh court dispute has left the 2026/27 Football Kenya Federation Premier League in limbo, with clubs, sponsors and broadcasters still waiting for clarity on who will play and under which rules. The standoff has revived long-running ques...
Kenya’s health financing overhaul has already brought tens of millions into the system and shifted more public money toward primary care. The promise is significant, but whether the reforms become a durable right will depend on implementati...
The Kenya Hospital Association has refreshed the board that oversees The Nairobi Hospital, with Dr Barcley Onyambu retaining the chairmanship after the association’s August 25 annual general meeting. The move signals continuity at the top o...
Kenya’s high-end smartphone market has a new talking point: the Honor Magic V6 is now being sold through importers at KES 312,999, even though Honor has not announced a formal local launch. The device’s arrival reflects both the global mome...
The Kenya Hospital Association has named a new 11-member board for The Nairobi Hospital after its latest AGM, while retaining Dr Barcley Onyambu as chairman in a move that follows months of governance turmoil at the flagship private facilit...
Police fired tear gas in Nairobi’s central business district on Friday as traders protested a recent Kenya Revenue Authority customs benchmark increase on consolidated imports, a move the tax agency says is meant to curb under-declaration a...
At the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, President Emmanuel Macron is trying to recast France’s role in Africa after a sharp retreat from its military footprint in the continent’s west. The message, delivered alongside President William Rut...
Nairobi is backing a continent-scale push for health data sharing as African institutions and partners move to improve disease surveillance, service planning and real-time decision-making.
President William Ruto’s call for a new long-term development plan beyond Vision 2030 has opened a fresh political and economic debate in Kenya, with supporters casting it as a generational reset and critics warning that the country’s recor...
