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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,…...

Lomé, October 15, 2024 – The President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment…

Lomé, 3 October 2024-The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and CORIS Bank International Côte d’Ivoire have extended a…

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…...

Washington, DC, USA – 14 October, 2024 – The African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI), and the Multilateral Investment…

APRA Ministers and Partners Gather to Align International Cooperation and Scale Up Investments to Match Africa’s Renewable Energy Goals and…

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

Nairobi, 11 October 2024 — At its 101st meeting held on 5 October 2024, the Board of Directors of the…

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…...

AXA Climate announces the official launch of Altitude for businesses, an innovative platform designed to measure the impact of climate risks, implement an adaptation…

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…...

On 26 September 2024, on the occasion of the Pointe-Noire Business Forum, Congo Terminal announced the construction of a new…

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

On September 25, 2024, the pan-African group AXIAN announced its entry into the capital of the Ivorian start-up WiASSUR, specialized…...

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

Ecobank Kenya lost millions of dollars between 2020 and 2022 following the failure of its card operations team to upload…...

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Claver Gatete, has emphasized the need for Africa’s youth to…

In a major development in African finance, just three days after acquiring the Access network, AFG Holding, a pan-African banking…