Yetu Sacco record $7.7m profit underlines stiff competition between commercial banks and cooperative societies in Kenya
In recent times, the Sacco has recorded a surge in membership, overshadowing their peers, with at least over 20,000 new entrants being enlisted over the past one year, pushing the figures to 104,159 people.
‘You are wrong, military courts are here to stay as Uganda is not governed by judges,’ Museveni blasts Supreme Court judges
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday his government would continue to prosecute civilians in military tribunals even after the country’s top court banned the practice, ruling it unconstitutional. In a majority decision on Friday, the East African country’s Supreme Court banned prosecutions of civilians in military courts and ordered...
US and Somalia claim ‘multiple’ ISIS operatives were killed in Africom airstrike on terrorist bases
The number of IS militants in the country are estimated to be in the hundreds, mostly scattered in the Cal Miskaat mountains in Puntland’s Bari region, according to the International Crisis Group.
One day we’ll wake up at the end of looting spree in Kenya to find its potential is all behind us and it is a land of lost opportunity
When President William Ruto is not roaming the countryside in the name of “bring development,” he is globe-trotting under the guise of shopping for employment the jobless youth. It is a shameless admission that his bottom-up policies cannot power the economy to generate jobs for more than three million graduates who are desperate to deploy their skills to nation-building. How can a government train manpower, then give it away for other countries to use?
East Africa’s leading gaming firm SportPesa transforms betting with M-Pesa mini-app integration
M-Pesa’s extensive reach, coupled with SportPesa’s reputation for delivering unparalleled gaming experiences, creates a synergy that benefits both platforms. This collaboration solidifies M-Pesa’s position as Kenya’s leading financial services provider.
Kenya eyes deeper economic ties with Europe to diversify exports from coffee, tea and flowers
Principal Secretary K’Ombudo said Kenya’s commitment to adhering to environmental standards, to attract trade and investment by maintaining supply chains that are ethical and verifiable to guard sustainability.
Buck stops with you Mr President: Opposition and senior state functionaries turn heat on president as more Kenyans are abducted
According to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reports, at least 82 Kenyans have gone missing since the Gen-Z (youth) protests began in June, with six people reportedly abducted in the past two weeks. The commission says the number could been higher.
Women take karate lessons for self-defence as alternative to police as femicide incidents in Kenya soar
Activists say the recent upward trend is felt across Kenya’s impoverished informal settlements, where women’s efforts to protect themselves have taken on fresh urgency. Inside a church in the Korogocho area of the capital Nairobi, Mary Wainaina, 93, thumped a punching bag. “No! No! No!” she shouted, before running away from a classmate pretending to be a male aggressor.
Nairobi county resolves bus owners and hawkers impasse but fails to address role of criminal enterprises in Kenyan capital’s chaos
Nairobi City County government led by Governor Johnson Sakaja has embarked on a clean-up exercise that has drawn in 3,500 ‘Green Army’ personnel every Sunday to restore a semblance of the gleam that once gave the Kenya capital the acclamation ‘Africa’s Green City in the Sun’ owing to its cleanliness, orderliness, security and public safety.
Rising access to electricity in Kenya, worries conservationists as 500 colobus monkeys, 5,000 birds are electrocuted by power transmission lines
Colobus Conservation in collaboration with KPLC in 2017 removed 12 kilometres of uninsulated powerlines in Diani at the Kenya coast and replaced them with insulated lines. The agencies also moved transformers, which given their location, were causing multiple primate electrocutions.
