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Ex-DCI boss overpaid Sh5m in Malaysia mission job

Nairobi, Feb. 26 -- The government may never recover Sh5.1 million erroneously paid to former Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Ndegwa Muhoro during his service as Kenya's high commissioner to... Read More


Auditor flags Sh170bn KQ, KPA, KenGen loans

Nairobi, Feb. 26 -- Taxpayers might be forced to repay Sh170 billion loans three State-owned enterprises took after the Treasury omitted them from a list of guaranteed debt yet retained in the debt-st... Read More


High cost of intra-EA cash transfers slows the Common Market

Nairobi, Feb. 25 -- East Africans are still struggling to find cheap options to send money from one country to another within the region, making it one of the greatest barriers to trade and slowing th... Read More


Google rolls out AI-powered Ad space for Africa

Nairobi, Feb. 25 -- American tech giant Google is capitalising on the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence-powered large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to revolutionise search engine m... Read More


Banks ditch crypto assets for central bank digital currencies

Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- African banks are abandoning plans to invest in crypto assets or use the technology, dealing a blow to hopes of the unconventional digital assets gaining acceptance in the conventi... Read More


Counties miss Sh16bn mineral use revenue potential amid shortfalls

Nairobi, Feb. 21 -- County governments collected below one percent of the Sh16 billion they could have raised from natural resource exploitation fees in the financial year that ended June last year, a... Read More


Doubt over Sh9bn sunk into duplicated projects

Nairobi, Feb. 20 -- Duplication of projects by the national and county governments could see Sh8.8 billion unaccounted for in the current financial year, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has warn... Read More


State-sponsored surveillance rises, more focus on journalists, activists

Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- The business of unethically and illegally spying on people's private digital lives through their devices is booming, and journalists, activists, and opposition politicians are now ... Read More


African financial industry loses appeal to international banks

Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- African financial industry players have increasingly lost confidence in the ability of the sector to attract international partners and investors, a result of the economic and poli... Read More


EA struggles to protect children online as digital life quality stagnates

Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- East African countries are struggling to protect children online amid poor digital infrastructure, policies, regulation and parental negligence. Most East African countries score ... Read More