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High material costs, taxes upset private sector activity to a 4-month low

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- Kenya's private sector activity grew at the slowest pace in four months in January, weighed down by higher prices of raw materials as well as elevated import taxes, new findings of ... Read More


Falling interest rates slow pension returns to 24.8pc last year

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- Pension fund returns declined to 24.8 percent in the year to December 2025 from 28.8 percent in 2024 as lower returns from fixed income assets weighed down improved yields from equi... Read More


Banks exclude fees, charges on existing loans in pricing change

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- Customers with existing loans will not pay origination/processing fees in the transition to the new risk-based credit pricing model (RBPCM) starting in March. Lenders have notified... Read More


Falling interest rates slow pension returns to 24.8pc in 2025

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- Pension fund returns declined to 24.8 percent in the year to December 2025 from 28.8 percent in 2024 as lower returns from fixed income assets weighed down improved yields from equi... Read More


Kenya lags behind South Africa in AI-able data centres

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- Kenya has only two artificial intelligence (AI)-capable data centres against South Africa's five, highlighting a growing infrastructure gap that could lock the continent out of the ... Read More


The night sky turning into a major tourist attraction in Samburu

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- It is midnight in Samburu. I lie on a star bed set deep in the wilderness. No walls; just a bed surrounded by rocks, acacia trees and mountains, wind moving through. Above me, almo... Read More


House team backs Sh204bn Safaricom State shares sale

Nairobi, Feb. 4 -- The parliamentary Finance and National Planning Committee says only Sh29.8 billion will be available for development expenditure in the 2025-26 financial year, underscoring the urge... Read More


How families influence entrepreneurs' journey

Nairobi, Feb. 3 -- Onsongo grew up in a prolific farming family just outside Kisii town. The family's patriarch was the chairman of the largest local agricultural cooperative, while the matriarch cham... Read More


Why timely payments to suppliers could unlock the growth of SMEs

Nairobi, Feb. 3 -- By restoring payment discipline and clearing Sh526 billion in pending bills, Kenya may be activating one of the most powerful-and least costly-levers for SME growth, job creation an... Read More


Kenyan TikTok creators earn Sh45m in first year of monetisation

Nairobi, Feb. 3 -- Kenyan digital creators earned Sh45.1 million in brand collaborations during the first year of TikTok's commercial operations in the country, boosting the platform's local creator e... Read More