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.
Why the revolutionary germ in Kenya’s Gen-Z tax protests is growing but political tribe has buried head in sand
You either die or accept to acquiesce in suffering to your grave. Gen-Zs elected the former and many of them were felled by what they perceived as the butchers gunshots. The stress were full of blood. The spirit, though, was not felled, just as was the case in the germinal revolutions in the far-away lands.
How climate change and counterfeits are hurting Kenyan farmers and raising concerns about who can share seeds
Kenya is not alone facing food security pressures. According to a UN Food and Agriculture and Organization (FAO) report in 2023, over a billion people across the African continent are unable to afford healthy diets, and the number of hungry people is increasing.
Kenya’s health minister warns Africa must prepare for aftershocks of US’ exit from WHO, funding pause
Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa pointed out that achieving this goal requires strengthening components of health security and ensuring the implementation of Universal Health Coverage that guarantees affordable, accessible, and quality care for all.
Judiciary on trial as Supreme Court of Kenya and lawyers’ body tough it out over planned chamber protests
Judiciary spokesman Paul Ndemo says it is imperative that lawyers seek a lawful and peaceful means to address the matters at hand.
