Youth lead Kenya’s voter registration surge ahead of 2027 polls
Kenya is witnessing a renewed wave of voter registration activity led largely by young people as the country prepares for the 2027 general elections. Energised…
Senior business and economics journalist covering markets, finance and trade across East Africa.
Kenya is witnessing a renewed wave of voter registration activity led largely by young people as the country prepares for the 2027 general elections. Energised…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday praised Kenyan President William Ruto for publicly condemning Iran’s missile and drone strikes on Gulf states, as…
A new report has emerged indicating that a section of Kenyan politicians have been thrown into a quiet panic following Iranian missile and drone attacks…
Kenya has told the International Monetary Fund it does not need its money — at least not before the financial year closes in June. Buoyed…
Across a country that has known little but turmoil for a generation, Syrians gathered Sunday to observe the 15th anniversary of the uprising that ultimately…
Voters in the Republic of Congo headed to the polls Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s decades-long rule,…
Kenya finds itself trapped in a fiscal spiral that no amount of political maneuvering can paper over. The numbers are stark, total public debt has…
Equity Group Holdings, Kenya second-largest lender by assets, is in the advanced stages of spinning off its technology subsidiary into an independent company to unlock…
Senegal’s National Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a new law doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual relations to 10 years and criminalising the “promotion”…
The Kenyan government has paid KSh4.09 billion in termination costs to investors and contractors after cancelling a planned road project in the country’s northeastern region,…
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