Back to school: Kenya’s transport agency vows to purge rickety vehicles as schools reopen

Back to school: Kenya’s transport agency vows to purge rickety vehicles as schools reopen

Among the items on the list is ensuring that the vehicle is roadworthy and has a valid inspection certificate, road service license (RSL) and insurance. The authority also advised drivers and conductors to ensure that all vehicle parts, including the brakes, tyres, lights and wing mirrors, are in working order.

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KIAMIS: Kenya embarks on farmer registration to facilitate access to subsidies

KIAMIS: Kenya embarks on farmer registration to facilitate access to subsidies

Kenya’s KIAMIS system had registered over 6.6 million farmers by July 2025, with a target of an additional 500,000 in the current August 2025 registration drive.

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Top officials of Kenya Tea Development Agency face economic crime charges after detectives expose massive looting

Top officials of Kenya Tea Development Agency face economic crime charges after detectives expose massive looting

KTDA is a private company collectively owned by over 600,000 smallholder tea farmers across 16 counties. These farmers are shareholders in 54 tea companies, which, together with 15 satellite factories, own KTDA Holdings and its eight subsidiaries.

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Tea Board of Kenya pitches for higher consumption of local tea as competition for international market intensifies

Tea Board of Kenya pitches for higher consumption of local tea as competition for international market intensifies

Small-scale tea farmers have been urged to enhance the quality of their tea to attract more markets and increase their earnings. Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) CEO Willy Mutai, speaking in Mombasa during a tea stakeholders’ consultative meeting, described the findings of a Tea Quality Validation Report as impressive and...

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Credit ratings agency S&P upgrades Kenya’s credit rating to ‘B’ from B-

Credit ratings agency S&P upgrades Kenya’s credit rating to ‘B’ from B-

The economy is expected to grow by 5.6 per cent this year, he added, which is above the Kenyan finance ministry’s forecast of 5.3 per cent and the central bank’s projection of 5.2 per cent.

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Despite high potential for gold mining Kenya still allocates the sector paltry budget

Despite high potential for gold mining Kenya still allocates the sector paltry budget

Despite promising gold deposit discoveries that include coltan – used in the manufacture of smartphones and electrical vehicle batteries – in Tana River, Elgeyo Marakwet, Turkana and Embu – the mining sector is routinely allocated a pittance in the national government budget.

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2027 election politics at play as Ruto orders completion of Suneka Airstrip in South Nyanza

2027 election politics at play as Ruto orders completion of Suneka Airstrip in South Nyanza

Ogamba revealed that Gusii leaders met the president at State House a week earlier and agreed to revive a series of stalled projects. The Suneka Airstrip first underwent rehabilitation in 2015 at a cost of Ksh52 million, which included construction of a passenger lounge with a capacity of 200 people, a car park, toilets, a perimeter fence and runway markings.

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Africa gears up for second climate summit in Addis Ababa as world grapples rising sea levels, desertification

Africa gears up for second climate summit in Addis Ababa as world grapples rising sea levels, desertification

The second Africa climate summit (ACS2) comes after the inaugural of the Nairobi 2023 Summit (ACS1) and is meant to position Africa as a leader and solutions provider in matters climate change, where by building on the momentum of (ACS1).

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Somali capital Mogadishu is one of cities urbanising rapidly but weak state and clan politics leave its displaced in limbo

Somali capital Mogadishu is one of cities urbanising rapidly but weak state and clan politics leave its displaced in limbo

Clan dynamics are a particular complication. Mogadishu is dominated by powerful major clans, especially the Hawiye. The majority of IDPs, however, are from marginalised so-called minority groups, including farm-based Bantu people.

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Eberechi Eze’s switch to Arsenal illustrates just how Premier League transfers are an incoherent mix of art and craft

Eberechi Eze’s switch to Arsenal illustrates just how Premier League transfers are an incoherent mix of art and craft

Except, it wasn’t really a hijacking at all. Arsenal had actually struck the principles of an agreement with Palace as early as the morning of August 10. They managed to keep it extraordinarily quiet as illustrated by how it was only after Wednesday evening’s sensations that multiple sources were willing to talk about it.

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