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How Finance Bill 2025 risks hiking Kenya's clean energy costs

According to Kenya’s National Electric Mobility Policy, it aims to have EVs contribute 30 per cent of all new vehicles that will be registered by 2030.
By Macharia Kamau 15 hrs ago
How Finance Bill 2025 risks hiking Kenya's clean energy costs
Kenya Power, State research firm eye battery manufacturing plant
By Graham Kajilwa 15 hrs ago
What makes Kenya a major entrepreneurs' paradise
What makes Kenya a major entrepreneurs' paradise
By XN Iraki 1 day ago
Facebook's Ethiopia Sh250b hate speech case puts Big Tech under test
Facebook's Ethiopia Sh250b hate speech case puts Big Tech under test
By Frankline Sunday 1 day ago
Is Kenya losing its economic power to EAC neighbours?
Kenyans have raised concerns about how the business environment is suffocating industrialisation, and that the focus has now moved to Tanzania and Uganda.
By Graham Kajilwa 7 days ago
Is Kenya losing its economic power to EAC neighbours?
What hurts Kenya's industrial takeoff
Kenya’s shaky energy supply and its high cost once again became a topic of discussion when the Vietnamese tycoon Doanh Chau critiqued Kenyan leaders for talking big but falling short on delivery. 
By Macharia Kamau 8 days ago
What hurts Kenya's industrial takeoff
Local banks bet on Pan-African payment system to spur trade
Kenya's leading lenders KCB Group and Equity Group, are strategically aligning with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System to capitalise on intra-African trade.
By Brian Ngugi 8 days ago
Local banks bet on Pan-African payment system to spur trade
Tanzania firm presses on with Kilifi gas plant amid safety fears
Environmentalists note that key safety components, including breakwater protections and proper discharge jetties, remain missing or untested.
By Macharia Kamau 14 days ago
Tanzania firm presses on with Kilifi gas plant amid safety fears
State defends tax regime as firms mull Kenya exit
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Deputy Commissioner Policy and Tax Advisory Maurice Oray noted that agricultural produce, for instance, is exempt from the VAT Act.
By Graham Kajilwa 14 days ago
State defends tax regime as firms mull Kenya exit
The inconvenient truth about devolution, the environment
Rain came as predicted, the rivers were crystal clear, and cancer was rare. Climate change or global warming were intellectual discussions, not mainstream. Not anymore.
By XN Iraki 15 days ago
The inconvenient truth about devolution, the environment
State pushes for shared cooking gas facilities to cut costs, boost access
The Ministry of Energy is pushing for the conversion of privately owned cooking gas handling facilities into common user infrastructure as part of strategy to drive up LPG usage in the country.
By Macharia Kamau 21 days ago
State pushes for shared cooking gas facilities to cut costs, boost access
Universal healthcare: Kenya's health sector at a turning point
Over the past decade, Kenya’s health sector has undergone significant policy evolution, shaped by two major national development frameworks - the Big Four Agenda and the BETA.
By Nick Wachira 21 days ago
Universal healthcare: Kenya's health sector at a turning point
Lack of harmonised laws hurts Africa's ICT take-off
Across Africa, governments and private sector players have poured significant investments into digital infrastructure—from sprawling fibre optic networks to booming mobile payments platforms.
By Macharia Kamau 21 days ago
Lack of harmonised laws hurts Africa's ICT take-off
Banks' lending dips by 240b as Kenyans shun costly loans
KCB Group, the country’s largest lender by assets, saw net loans and advances to customers fall by Sh99 billion in the 2024 financial year, a 10 per cent drop compared to 2023.
By Frankline Sunday 28 days ago
Banks' lending dips by 240b as Kenyans shun costly loans
Jitters over Trump's 10pc tariff as data shows dip in EPZ jobs
The latest data shows 7,369 people lost their livelihoods in 2023.
By Brian Ngugi and Graham Kajilwa 28 days ago
Jitters over Trump's 10pc tariff as data shows dip in EPZ jobs
How women investors are shaping Kenya's financial landscape
Traditionally limited to informal savings groups, women are now thriving in financial markets, building wealth and driving economic growth.
By Mercy Mwelu 28 days ago
How women investors are shaping Kenya's financial landscape
AGRA partners with Green Climate Fund to launch post-harvest food losses programme
Christened RE-GAIN, the initiative is expected to support and drive adoption of food loss solutions across the continent.
By Nanjinia Wamuswa 29 days ago
AGRA partners with Green Climate Fund to launch post-harvest food losses programme
KTDA power production up 32pc on rains
A statement from KTDA said these six operational power plants generated 3.28 MKWhrs in February 2025, and 4.33 MKWhrs in March 2025.
By Graham Kajilwa 29 days ago
KTDA power production up 32pc on rains
The value of increasing public sector skills in the age of AI
Technologically adept officials can better understand, implement, and manage digital initiatives, driving improved service delivery and innovation that benefits all Kenyans.
By Winnie Karanu 1 month ago
The value of increasing public sector skills in the age of AI
State questions private sector data as manufacturers push for tax cuts
The quality of data used to make decisions in the manufacturing sector has been put to question, even as manufacturers tabled their case before the government to remove taxes on inputs.
By Graham Kajilwa 1 month ago
State questions private sector data as manufacturers push for tax cuts
Why state, motorists are at odds on road tolling
Road users have called for non-tolled road alternatives even as the government pushes ahead with plans to introduce fees for use of some key roads and highways across the country. 
By Macharia Kamau and James Wanzala 1 month ago
Why state, motorists are at odds on road tolling
Treasury's renewed appetite for local loans to hurt firms
Kenyan businesses face significant challenges in accessing credit due to high lending rates, a situation that could further be exacerbated by the government’s appetite for borrowing locally.
By Esther Dianah 1 month ago
Treasury's renewed appetite for local loans to hurt firms
Will fresh blood at helm of KTDA turn the tide for tea farmers?
After losing twice in the elections, Chege Kirundi was third-time lucky when he finally won the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) chairmanship in January this year.
By Macharia Kamau 1 month ago
Will fresh blood at helm of KTDA turn the tide for tea farmers?
Why government paper is preferred asset class for pension funds
An ageing workforce in the public sector has been cited as one of the key reasons why investment firms concentrate their assets under management in government paper.
By Graham Kajilwa 1 month ago
Why government paper is preferred asset class for pension funds
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