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Blow for Uber and Bolt drivers as court blocks 18pc commission cap

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- The High Court has blocked enforcement of an 18 percent commission cap charged on drivers and vehicle owners by ride-hailing platforms, marking a win for operators who had opposed ... Read More


Five million households to get electricity under new World Bank project

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- An estimated five million households will be connected to electricity under a Sh114 billion ($880 million) World Bank-backed project that mainly seeks to light up rural Kenya. The... Read More


Why MSMEs and banks need a mutual evolution

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Attend any fintech conference or read the latest report about trade financing gaps in developing economies including Kenya and you will notice that the debate is about the same wal... Read More


How Kenya's priority sectors can become engines of growth

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Countries are not short of priority sectors. Across national development plans, governments routinely identify manufacturing, tourism, agriculture, digital services, pharmaceutical... Read More


What collective assumptions hold back your firm's success?

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- "Business performance is often not limited by what managers know. The problem is how they think about what they know," advises the psychologist Jamil Qureshi. What does the number... Read More


Safety focus amid record pesticide consumption in Kenya

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Kenya's pesticide use has reached a record high, highlighting the country's growing dependence on chemical crop protection even as health and environmental risks rise. Data from t... Read More


Kenyan meat processor builds a one-million goats annual exports business

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Ken Meat, a processor that has found a market in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, has built a successful business around small ruminants. "... Read More


More 'kimchi' please: Fermented Korean cabbage finds a ripe market in Kenya

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Korean food has found an audience in Kenya, if attendance at a recent kimchi-making workshop is anything to go by. But the reception was not always warm. When Evalyne Akinyi Odhia... Read More


The founder's exit

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- This week the national carrier announced yet another leadership transition. An acting chief executive stepping down, the company secretary stepping up in an acting capacity, a subs... Read More


KRA's new container benchmark tax, and a fight with no villain

Nairobi, Sept. 2 -- Nairobi's commercial streets went quiet on August 28, 2026. Along Moi Avenue, Kenyatta Avenue and Tom Mboya Street, traders pulled down their shutters and marched to Times Tower, p... Read More