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Building Businesses That Can Survive Economic Uncertainty

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Periods of economic uncertainty test businesses in different ways. Rising costs, shifting consumer priorities and changing market conditions can quickly expose weaknesses in a comp... Read More


How business software firm Odoo is helping Kenyans firms replace fragmented systems

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- For many Kenyan businesses, keeping track of sales, stock, finances, employees, and customers can still mean juggling several disconnected records. A sale recorded by one departme... Read More


Absa and Co-op lead as banks double down on bancassurance

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Absa Bank Kenya and Co-operative Bank of Kenya led listed lenders in pre-tax earnings generated from bancassurance in the first half of the year ended June 2026 as banks deepened t... Read More


Kenyans risk Sh32.3m fine over sham US marriages, immigration lawyers warn

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Immigration lawyers are seeing a surge in work as more Kenyans in the US fight to remain in the country amid the Donald Trump administration's crackdown on sham marriages-arrangeme... Read More


How to get more from the board strategy retreat

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Most board strategy retreats fall short not because they lack information, but because they devote too little time to strategic thinking. Over the next few weeks, many boards will... Read More


HIV gains expose new burden for patients, healthcare system

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Kenya has reduced new HIV infections by 83 percent in ten years, from 101,448 in 2013 to 16,752 in 2023, while the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy more than doubl... Read More


Why Dangote's Lamu venture is about Africa's industrial future

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- When Aliko Dangote looks east, he sees more than an investment opportunity. He sees the chance to reshape Africa's energy map. After transforming West Africa's refining industry in... Read More


Trust, not technology, will determine whether Central Sacco will succeed

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- This week offered another reminder of how fragile the sacco sector's biggest ambitions around the National Payments System remain. The Co-operatives Bill, which would repeal the o... Read More


Kamal pushed out of KQ after 8 months

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Kenya Airways (KQ) board of directors on Tuesday kicked out George Kamal as acting group managing director and chief executive officer and replaced him with the company secretary a... Read More


Investors snub securities borrowing and lending scheme on share price rally

Nairobi, Sept. 1 -- Investors on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) are snubbing a scheme that allows for lending and borrowing of securities, put off by a rally in share prices. The scheme, also ... Read More