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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has partnered with Nium, a Singapore-headquartered cross- border payments company for seamless cross border payments across…...

Kenya’s largest telecommunications company, Safaricom Plc has acquired an insurance license ending a four year wait as part of its…...

Telkom Kenya lost more than one million customers in the one year period to June 2024, new industry data shows,…...

Professor Abraham Kithure Kindiki has been sworn in as the thirteenth (13th) Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya following…...

Kenya is set to receive $606 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the seventh and eighth…...

Airtel Kenya has disclosed it secured an extension of its operating licence for two years from January in the newly…...

Listed firm HF Group has received approval from Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to raise up to $46.5 million (Ksh6…...

Savannah Clinker has increased its proposed price for takeover of listed cement manufacturer Bamburi by 9.3 percent from $0.54 (Ksh70)…...

Nigeria’s federal government has withdrawn money laundering charges against detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan on medical grounds. The charges were…...

Various humanitarian bodies including Amnesty International and the United Nation’s refugee arm have expressed deep concern and alarm over the…...

East African investors have been locked out of the initial public offering (IPO) of the Ethiopia’s state owned telecommunications company. …...

Kenya’s National Assembly speaker Moses Wetangula has gazetted Prof Kithure Kindiki, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Administration of National…...

Kenya’s parliament has summoned former late President Daniel Moi’s son and former Baringo senator Gideon Moi for hoping in trust…...

Ethiopian commercial banks will be required to disclose to customers all fees and commissions relating to forex transactions effective immediately,…...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has cleared America’s largest bank, JP Morgan Chase and Co. to set up a…...

The Ugandan government has signed a $3 billion contract with a Turkish company for the construction of a section of…...

Eritrea, Egypt and Somalia have teamed up in a tripartite agreement to strengthen the latter’s army efforts against terrorism in…...

Safaricom’s Mpesa and Airtel’s paybill and till numbers used by millions of Kenyans to make daily transactions across the country…...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) slashed the key lending rate by the largest margin since the onset of the…...

Stanchart Chartered Bank of Kenya and Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) have the highest loan exposure in government entities as of…...

Kenya is losing its attractiveness as a desirable export market in the East African Community on tariffs and trade wars. …...

Kenya’s listed telecommunications company Safaricom Plc spent less in the year ended March 2024 on its expatriate staff by 17.7…...

Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell to 4.6 per cent in the three months leading up to June from 5.6…...

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has topped its African peers in returns for foreign investors in the nine months to…...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has overtaken Kenya and Uganda as Tanzania’s leading export market, signalling the changing trade…...

Ethiopia’s khat export to Somalia has fallen amid diplomatic tensions and high taxation.Somalia has long been the largest export destination…...

Ghana’s central bank slashed its base lending rate by 200 basis points to 27 per cent on Friday, the first…...

Two days ago, a Kenyan High Court declared the Privatisation Act unconstitutional, a move that could sour the country’s relations…...

Nigeria’s Central Bank has raised its benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 27.5 per cent attributed to the…...

Kenya’s external borrowing next year is projected to fall to $1.29 billion from $2.76 billion in the current financial year…...