President William Ruto has declared that Kenya has crossed a historic threshold in the pursuit of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with 32.3 million Kenyans registered under the Social Health Authority (SHA), saying the focus must now shift from establishing UHC to ensuring it delivers quality and affordable healthcare to every patient.“The question before us has changed. No longer whether Kenya should pursue universal health coverage. We have crossed that Rubicon. But how do we make it work even better for every patient, at every facility, and in every county?” Ruto posited.The president spoke on Tuesday during the opening of the Kenya Health Summit 2026 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, where national and county governments, health workers, development partners, private-sector players, and other stakeholders are assessing the progress of health reforms.The two-day summit, running from August 18 to 19, is being held under the theme ‘Reform Delivered. Health as a Right.’President Ruto said UHC was one of the five pillars of his administration’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda, noting that economic empowerment could not be meaningful if illness continued to wipe out household savings and push families into poverty.He noted that the reforms were anchored in four laws signed in October 2023—the Primary Health Care Act, Social Health Insurance Act, Digital Health Act, and Facility Improvement Financing Act—which replaced the former NHIF framework and established the legal architecture for Taifa Care.Further, the President announced that 107,800 community health promoters (CHPs) had been deployed nationwide, reaching more than nine million households and referring over 750,000 people for treatment.Through the Primary Health Care Fund, he disclosed that the government has allocated Sh27.4 billion and disbursed Sh23.3 billion to support more than 20 million outpatient visits, benefiting over 15 million Kenyans.Ruto added that eight million Kenyans had received treatment through SHA, while more than 1.5 million mothers had been supported to deliver safely and over 500,000 surgical procedures funded.The government, he said, has also sponsored nearly 560,000 vulnerable households, covering approximately 2.2 million Kenyans.On emergency healthcare, Ruto highlighted the recently launched SHA-922 Lifeline and National Ambulance Dispatch Center, saying it would enable patients to access emergency assistance without having to raise money or make deposits before treatment.“Article 43 of our Constitution does not say emergency care is available only to those who can afford it. It says no person shall be denied emergency medical treatment,” he proclaimed.In his remarks, Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Aden Duale stated that the reforms had also improved the availability of medicines, medical equipment, and health workers.Duale reported that the national order fill rate at the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) had increased from 35 percent when the administration took office to 95 percent.He revealed that KEMSA had been recapitalised through a Sh10 billion credit facility and currently supplies more than 11,400 health facilities, with 54 percent of its supplies going to Level 2 and Level 3 primary healthcare facilities.On medical equipment, Duale said equipment worth Sh9.68 billion had been installed in 251 health facilities across 44 counties as at July 30, 2026.The equipment includes 36 CT scanners, two MRI machines, 52 digital X-ray machines, and 72 ultrasound machines.Duale added that the government had deployed 24,573 healthcare interns across all 47 counties over the past four years at a cost of Sh19 billion, while 5,000 additional nurses were being recruited.On his part, Council of Governors Chair Ahmed Abdullahi mentioned that counties had received Sh46 billion through SHA, of which Sh31.4 billion had been paid to hospitals and Sh14.2 billion reimbursed to primary healthcare facilities.He said primary care networks had increased from 89 to 277, while counties continued to work with the national Government to strengthen primary healthcare services.Concurrently, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja highlighted progress in expanding access to primary healthcare in the capital, where 7,820 community health promoters serve about 780,000 households.In attendance, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya Gary Connell, speaking on behalf of the UN family, observed that the success of the reforms would ultimately be measured by the experience of patients rather than the laws and policies adopted.“A right written is a promise. A right delivered is a country keeping its word,” Connell established.National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula, on the other hand, said Parliament had provided the legislative foundation for the reforms, noting that the four major health laws were passed in 2023.He called for stronger action against fraud, unlawful charges, unequal distribution of health professionals, and wastage of resources, while urging greater emphasis on preventive and promotive healthcare.
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Read briefing Kevin Kinyanjui, one of the pioneers of Kenya’s IT profession and among the most respected CIOs of his generation, has been laid to rest. He was 59.The CIO community joined his family and friends in celebrating his life at the Karura Community Chapel.For those who worked alongside him, and there are many, across four decades and half a dozen of Kenya’s largest institutions, the loss is heavy. Kinyanjui belonged to the small cohort who built the CIO role in this country before it had a name. At a time when technology reported somewhere below finance and had to argue its way into every conversation. He argued well, and he did it without drawing attention.Kinyanjui entered the industry in 1986 as a systems designer and developer at Agman Computer Services, moving two years later into IT management consultancy at PwC. The training ground, he would later say, that taught him to look at technology through the lens of the business rather than the machine. In consultancy he worked across sectors and across African markets, helping companies find efficiency in finance, payroll, human resources, supply chain, inventory, sales and customer service.His own account of the journey ran through the Management Consultancy Services Division in the Office of the President; Barclays Bank across East Africa, Botswana and the United Kingdom; Bamburi Cement, where he served as Group Information Systems Manager and CIO from 1995; Housing Finance, as IT Director and CIO; Kenya Airways; East African Breweries under Diageo; and Old Mutual Life Assurance Kenya, where he spent seven years. He held a qualification from the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria.It was at Kenya Airways, which he joined in early 2004 as Information Systems Director and CIO, that his reputation was made. He held the role for 13 years — an extraordinary tenure in a job whose average lifespan is measured in single-digit years — through the airline’s expansion, its fleet renewal and its most turbulent commercial period.“He mentored many, a pioneer CIO. He was one of the first Navision experts, before rolling out Oracle ERP and other large systems. He refused to be called IT director because he was one of the first experts to realize that the emphasis should be on systems and business enablement, not technology. Hence Information Systems Director at KQ,” said Francis Kamuyu, a mentee.His brief there, as he described it to our publication, was disarmingly simple and rather demanding: to ensure the IT strategy supported the business strategy as well as it possibly could — across core operations, customer service and internal efficiency. In practice that meant an airline’s entire nervous system: reservations, departure control, baggage, loyalty, maintenance, revenue accounting, and the mobile channels he pushed the carrier towards early, when self-service was still a novelty in African aviation.The recognition followed. In 2013, his team won the Computer Society of Kenya’s award for use of ICT in the air transport sector. In 2014, Kenya Airways took the overall East African honour at the CIO100 Awards for its baggage-tracking system — and Kinyanjui was named CIO of the Year, the highest individual recognition in the East African technology profession at the CIO100 Awards and Symposium in Naivasha.Beyond his corporate roles, he built other things, including the Golden Valley Livestock Cooperative, a reminder that his interest in systems extended well past the server room.“He was like a five-star general in the military,” said Harry Hare, Chairman and Co-Founder of CIO Africa by dx5, who knew him across the length of his career. “Calm, always calm, whatever the crisis — and wherever it came from, it’s now here, and he’s in charge. He had that quiet authority that doesn’t need to be proclaimed. He never ran, always walked and worked purposefully, as if every move had been rehearsed to perfection. He didn’t perform, didn’t try to impress, he was always unfazed.”Anyone who has run technology for an airline will recognise what that composure was worth. Aviation systems fail in public and at speed; a departure control outage is not an inconvenience but a queue of stranded passengers and aircraft going nowhere. The temperament Kinyanjui brought to those hours — unhurried, deliberate, entirely without theatre — is the rarest quality in the profession and the least teachable.The generation Kinyanjui belonged to did something that is easy to overlook now, when Kenya’s technology sector is celebrated globally and its engineers are recruited worldwide. They established, institution by institution, that technology leadership was a business discipline rather than a support function — that the person running the systems belonged in the room where the strategy was set. They did it without playbooks, mostly without budgets, and often without much recognition beyond their own peer group.That peer group is precisely what the CIO community in East Africa became, and Kinyanjui was among the figures who gave it standing. Those who came after him — the chief digital officers and chief technology officers now sitting on executive committees across the region — inherited an authority he and his contemporaries built.
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Read briefing Artificial intelligence is becoming embedded in the everyday lives of younger users, but for Generation Z, its role is moving beyond search, study and work. Increasingly, AI is also being treated as something closer to a conversational companion.New research by Kaspersky’s internal market research centre, based on responses from 7,200 people globally, suggests that Gen Z is using AI more frequently than other generations and is also developing a more personal relationship with the technology.Almost half of Gen Z respondents, 47%, said they use AI every day or almost every day, the highest proportion among the demographic groups surveyed. Their most common uses include searching for information, reported by 56% of respondents, followed by studying at 49%, generating ideas at 47% and work at 39%.The findings point to a generation that is becoming increasingly comfortable incorporating AI into activities that once relied almost entirely on traditional search engines, teachers, colleagues or other people.But the more notable shift may be happening outside these practical applications.According to the survey, 27% of Gen Z respondents said they use AI as a friend. That is higher than the proportion reported among other generations and suggests that conversational AI is beginning to occupy a different space in people’s digital lives.For some young users, the appeal appears to be the ease with which they can initiate a conversation. AI systems are available on demand, can respond conversationally and do not carry the same social dynamics as speaking to another person. This has also made them a place where some users are willing to discuss issues they might otherwise keep to themselves.The survey found that 28% of Gen Z respondents use AI to discuss personal issues they would rather not share with other people.That growing familiarity, however, introduces questions about how users understand the boundaries between an AI system and a human relationship.An AI chatbot may respond in a conversational and reassuring way, but it does not have the judgement, accountability or understanding of a human friend. Its responses can also be inaccurate or inappropriate. At the same time, the sense of privacy created by a one-to-one conversation may encourage users to disclose information they would normally keep confidential.This creates a challenge for a generation that is otherwise among the most comfortable with emerging digital technologies: familiarity with AI does not necessarily translate into safer use of it.Kaspersky’s research found that only 42% of Gen Z respondents consistently take protective measures when using AI services.Such measures include checking information generated by AI against reliable sources and avoiding the disclosure of confidential or sensitive information.A further 52% said they take such precautions only occasionally, while 6% do not take them at all.The figures highlight a potential gap between AI adoption and AI literacy. Young people may be quick to experiment with new AI tools and understand their capabilities, but that familiarity can also make it easier to overlook the risks associated with using them.The issue becomes more significant as AI moves into areas such as education, work, communication and personal decision-making.An inaccurate AI-generated response could affect a student’s academic work or influence an everyday decision. More concerning is the information that users may voluntarily enter into these systems. A conversation with an AI service could contain personal documents, financial information, private correspondence, passwords or other sensitive details.The principle is relatively straightforward: information entered into an AI service should not automatically be assumed to be confidential simply because the interaction feels private.This is particularly relevant as conversational AI becomes more sophisticated. The more natural the interaction becomes, the easier it can be for users to forget that they are communicating with a technology platform rather than a person.The growing use of AI does not necessarily mean that young users should avoid the technology. Instead, it points to the need for responsible AI habits to develop alongside technical familiarity.One of the most important habits is verification. AI-generated information can be useful, but important claims should be checked against reliable sources, particularly when the subject involves education, finance, legal matters, healthcare or other areas where inaccurate information can have significant consequences.Users should think carefully before entering passwords, payment information, identity documents, private correspondence or other confidential material into AI platforms. Understanding how an AI service collects, processes and stores information can also help users make more informed decisions about what they share.Cybersecurity risks also extend beyond the AI systems themselves. As AI becomes more popular, criminals can exploit that interest through phishing campaigns, fraudulent websites and fake AI applications designed to trick users into handing over information or downloading malicious software.
Read briefing Opposition rallies in Kenya continue to attract sizable turnouts even as organizers report efforts to disrupt the events, keeping election-season tensions in focus.Why it matters: Useful for tracking Kenya’s shifting political climate ahead of the 2027 election cycle.
Read briefing IEBC’s ongoing voter-registration drive remains active, with the commission previously saying it aims to build a register of about 28.5 million voters for the 2027 general election. Its published materials also show enhanced registration took place across all constituencies, wards, Huduma Centres and higher-learning institutions, making county turnout and youth registration the immediate practical battleground.Why it matters: This has county significance because registration access, youth mobilisation and local participation will determine voter distribution and campaign planning across the country. Mark political reporting sensitive for editor review.
Read briefing Africanews reports that opposition mobilization in Kenya drew large crowds despite efforts to interfere, keeping political tensions elevated ahead of the 2027 election cycle.Why it matters: It signals ongoing political contestation and security concerns in Kenya, a core campaign concern for any balanced local agenda.
Read briefing Airtel Africa has switched on satellite-to-mobile service in the Democratic Republic of Congo, marking what telecom outlets across the continent are uniformly describing as the first time the technology has moved from pilot to full commercial deployment anywhere in Africa. The launch was unveiled in Kinshasa on August 14, 2026, through Airtel’s partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and puts the DRC ahead of every other Airtel Africa market in bringing satellite-backed mobile connectivity to ordinary customers.The service lets customers with compatible smartphones connect directly to Starlink’s satellite network in areas with no terrestrial mobile coverage, provided they have a clear view of the sky. No dish, no separate satellite terminal, and no specialised equipment is required. At this stage, the service supports light-data applications only, WhatsApp messaging and SMS, delivered through what is being described as the largest satellite-to-mobile constellation in the world, with roughly 650 satellites currently in orbit. To use it, customers need a compatible Long Term Evolution (LTE) Android smartphone and either an active Airtel DRC data bundle or data roaming switched on. Eligible customers can register through the MyAirtel App for a free 30-day introductory trial, after which access moves to paid data bundles. Apple device support is expected to follow later, and SpaceX has said the service already works across more than 100 device models.The timeline behind the launch stretches back several months. Airtel Africa and Starlink first announced their strategic partnership in December 2025. That was followed by a pilot of Starlink Mobile’s data and messaging services in Kenya in March 2026 — a test run only, never opened commercially to customers. The DRC is where that groundwork turned into an actual product people can buy, and Airtel and industry coverage alike frame it as the first commercial go-live for the initiative anywhere on the continent.Airtel DRC Managing Director Thierry Diasnoma has pointed to the country’s size and geography as the reason terrestrial infrastructure is so difficult to deploy economically in remote areas, positioning the satellite layer as a way to keep customers reachable where ground networks don’t extend. “The commercial launch of Starlink Mobile is an important step in extending essential connectivity across the DRC,” Diasnoma said. “Our country’s size and geography mean that many people live, work and travel beyond the reach of conventional mobile infrastructure.” In a separate statement, he added: “This service provides an additional layer of connectivity, helping customers remain reachable, informed and connected even in areas where terrestrial coverage is unavailable.”Airtel Africa CEO Sunil Taldar framed the launch as a company-wide milestone rather than a DRC-only story, tying it to the broader strategic bet on pairing ground infrastructure with satellite coverage. “The first-ever commercial launch of Starlink Mobile in Africa is a significant milestone for Airtel Africa through our partnership with SpaceX,” Taldar said. “By combining Airtel’s terrestrial network with Starlink’s satellite technology, we are extending essential connectivity beyond the limits of conventional mobile infrastructure. The DRC is leading this important development, and the experience gained here will support the progressive expansion of the service across our markets, subject to country-specific regulatory approvals.”Airtel has said the service is expected to be particularly useful for transport and logistics operators, humanitarian organisations, health workers, farmers, mining operations, and communities living, working or travelling beyond the reach of conventional mobile infrastructure. It could also serve as a backup communications channel during emergencies, natural disasters, or temporary disruptions to terrestrial networks.On where this leaves the DRC among Airtel’s markets: it is currently the only one where the service is commercially live. Kenya remains the sole other market touched by the initiative, and only as a test case, not a launch. Taldar has said the DRC deployment is meant to serve as a blueprint for gradual expansion across Airtel Africa’s 14 markets in sub-Saharan Africa, but he tied that explicitly to country-specific regulatory approvals, no next market or timeline has been named publicly yet.Starlink separately holds its own telecommunications licence in the DRC, granted by the Congolese Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARPTC) to the locally registered Starlink DRC S.A., which allows Starlink to operate as an internet service provider in its own right — a dish-based broadband product, unrelated to the Airtel-branded satellite-to-mobile service, and one that has been available in the country since around December 2025. That ISP licence marked Starlink’s entry into its 22nd African market for that separate business line.
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Read briefing Africa’s digital economy is growing rapidly, but much of the technology powering it has been designed elsewhere. Dennis Maina, Founder and Managing Partner of Suss Ads, believes that needs to change. His vision is to build advertising technology that reflects the realities of African consumers and businesses while creating solutions capable of competing on a global stage.In this interview, Maina explores why Africa needs technology built around its own markets, data and consumer behaviours; how AI could reshape digital advertising and business decision-making; and why privacy, trust and first-party data will become increasingly important. He also shares his perspective on scaling across diverse African markets, building world-class technology talent and balancing bold innovation with commercial discipline.For Maina, the opportunity goes beyond advertising. It is about shifting Africa from being primarily a consumer of technology to becoming a place where technology is designed, built and exported to the world.Q: What gap in the market something global platforms and existing African players weren’t solving made you decide to build Suss? What was the moment you knew this needed to exist?A: My journey into advertising technology was unconventional. I grew up in Mukuru kwa Reuben, studied political science and began my career in research before moving into media and digital marketing. That path taught me to look at people, systems and markets before looking at technology. As I worked across African markets, I kept seeing the same contradiction: Africa was generating enormous consumer activity, yet many of the tools used to understand and reach African audiences had been designed somewhere else, around different realities.For advertisers, the immediate problem was fragmentation. The major digital platforms operated as walled gardens: a client could see what was happening inside one platform, but not the full campaign or customer journey. Data, inventory, payments and reporting lived in separate systems. Local publishers and channels were often underrepresented, and when something went wrong, support could feel distant from the market and the moment.The moment of conviction came when I realised that we were repeatedly solving the same problem manually for clients. We needed one place where an African business could plan, buy, measure and optimise media across channels, with local context and accountable support. If that infrastructure did not exist, we had to build it.That is how Suss Ads began in 2021 – not simply as another agency, but as an effort to build advertising technology from Africa, for Africa, and eventually for the world. We started with programmatic advertising and expanded through integrations to create a more unified view of media. The larger vision is to ensure that African consumers, publishers and businesses are represented by technology that understands their realities, rather than being reduced to assumptions imported from elsewhere.Q: Beyond the slogan, what tangible advantages does locally developed technology give enterprises operating on the continent and where have global platforms fallen short?A: The advantage of locally developed technology is not geography alone; it is proximity to the problem. When the people building the product operate in the same markets as the people using it, feedback travels faster, context becomes product input and support becomes accountable.That has tangible consequences. African enterprises operate across different currencies, payment habits, languages, regulations, levels of data availability and media ecosystems. A platform designed around credit cards, abundant datasets and centralised support will not automatically fit a market where mobile money is the preferred payment method, connectivity varies and a campaign may need to combine the open web, digital out-of-home, radio, connected television and messaging channels. Locally built technology can make those realities part of the architecture rather than treating them as exceptions.At Suss Ads, one of our greatest strengths is reachable, responsive expertise. We do not measure success by how much a client spends; we measure it by whether the advertising works and whether the client can see, understand and improve the outcome. When a campaign encounters a problem, our team understands both the technology and the local market well enough to act quickly.Global platforms have delivered extraordinary scale, but they can fall short when they treat Africa as one market or as an extension of a global playbook. Our approach is not to reject global technology. We connect it with African inventory, channels, payment systems and intelligence. The opportunity is to build the connective layer that gives enterprises global reach without losing local relevance.Q: As AI reshapes industries, where do you see the biggest opportunities for African businesses to leverage it over the next five years?
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Read briefing Safaricom PLC is reshaping its Board with the appointment of two senior Vodacom Group executives, bringing additional expertise in fintech, corporate finance, human resources and organisational transformation to the telecommunications company.Safaricom has appointed Mariam Cassim and Matimba Mbungela as Non-Executive Directors, effective August 13, 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. The company also announced the resignation of James Ludlow and Dr. (Eng.) John Kipng’etich Mosonik from the Board, effective the same date.Cassim, the Chief Executive Officer, FinTech at Vodacom Group, brings experience spanning corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial management, innovation and business development. Her appointment comes as financial services become increasingly central to Safaricom’s growth strategy, particularly through M-PESA and other digital financial services.Mbungela, Vodacom Group’s Chief Officer, Human Resources, has more than two decades of experience in human resources and organisational leadership, including regional roles covering talent, organisational effectiveness and change.His appointment comes as Safaricom and the wider telecommunications industry navigate rapid technological change, including AI adoption, new workforce requirements and digital transformation.The composition of the new Board therefore points to two areas that are likely to be increasingly important to Safaricom’s next phase of growth: digital financial services and organisational transformation.Cassim’s fintech and corporate finance background could strengthen the Board’s oversight of Safaricom’s expanding financial-services business, while Mbungela’s expertise could support the company’s approach to talent, leadership and organisational change as technology reshapes the workplace.The appointments also deepen the representation of Vodacom Group, Safaricom’s parent company, on the Board, potentially strengthening strategic alignment between the Kenyan operator and the wider Vodacom Group.Safaricom said the new directors bring extensive experience that will support the company’s continued growth and transformation.The company thanked Ludlow and Mosonik for their contributions to Board and committee meetings and wished them well in their future endeavours.
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Read briefing Congo’s latest data show a sharply worsening Ebola toll, with the outbreak spreading far faster than past crises.Why it matters: This is a major health crisis, but it is outside the 48-hour window; included only as background context and not a current lead.
Read briefing IEBC has formalised campaign-finance regulations for the 2027 cycle, setting the governing period for expenditure and compliance obligations for parties and candidates.Why it matters: Funding limits and reporting rules affect national and county races and are central to enforcement, disclosure and dispute risk; mark for sensitive editor review.
Read briefing Today is Thursday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2026. There are 126 days left in the year.On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra.In 1894, Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which contained a provision for a graduated income tax that was later struck down by the Supreme Court.In 1964, the film “Mary Poppins” had its world premiere in Los Angeles, California.In 1979, British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.In 1982, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A’s stole his 119th base of the season, breaking Lou Brock’s single-season stolen base record. (Henderson would finish the season with a still-unmatched 130 stolen bases.)In 1990, blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughn and four others were killed in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin.In 2001, Israeli helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows in the West Bank city of Ramallah, killing senior PLO leader Mustafa Zibri.In 2005, coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to avoid Hurricane Katrina, which was headed toward New Orleans.In 2008, Barack Obama was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, becoming the first Black presidential nominee from a major political party.In 2011, Hurricane Irene made landfall in the United States; the storm would be responsible for 49 total deaths and more than $14 billion in damage.In 2025, a shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck some of the nearly 200 children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two children and wounding 17 people. The attacker shot dozens of rounds toward the children seated in pews at the Annunciation Catholic School; police said he later died by suicide.Today’s Birthdays: Author William Least Heat-Moon is 87. Actor Tuesday Weld is 83. Actor G.W. Bailey is 82. Rock musician Alex Lifeson (Rush) is 73. Actor Peter Stormare is 73. Rock musician Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols) is 69. Golfer Bernhard Langer is 69. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams is 65. Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford is 65. Actor Chandra Wilson is 57. Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Thome is 56. Rapper Mase is 51. Actor Sarah Chalke is 50. Actor Aaron Paul is 47. Actor Patrick J. Adams (TV: “Suits”) is 45. Singer Mario is 40. Actor Alexa PenaVega is 38. Singer-songwriter Kim Petras is 34. U.S. Olympic and WNBA basketball star Breanna Stewart is 32. Rapper/singer-songwriter Rod Wave is 28.
Read briefing Kenya remains the largest beneficiary of Agoa in the garment sector.
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Read briefing Kenya is seeking to deepen its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate digital transformation, with a focus on digital skills, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and connectivity.The discussions were held during an official visit by Hon. William Kabogo, Cabinet Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy, to the AWS offices in Nairobi.Through the AWS re/Start programme, thousands of Kenyans have been trained in cloud computing, with the programme recording a 45 per cent placement rate among trained participants.Kabogo said Kenya is looking to scale such programmes by leveraging existing infrastructure, including Jitume Digital Hubs, while strengthening partnerships with universities and other tertiary institutions.“We must ensure that our young people are not only trained, but equipped with practical, industry-relevant skills that respond to the evolving demands of the digital economy,” Kabogo said.The CS said the government would continue working with AWS to advance digital skills development, e-government, AI and connectivity, particularly in underserved communities.The meeting was attended by Robin Njiru, Head of Public Sector, Sub-Saharan Africa at AWS; Eng. John Tanui, Principal Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy; and Paul Okwiri, CEO of Konza Technopolis, alongside other senior government officials.
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