Kenya corruption threatens to engulf government, auditor general says
High-level corruption across all levels of government in Kenya threatens the integrity and basic functioning of the state, the auditor general told Reuters on Thursday. Kenyan media have reported on dozens of graft scandals involving public officers conspiring to steal from state coffers since President Uhuru Kenyatta took office in 2013. Some officials More...
Mombasa -Nairobi Pipeline complete – KPC
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A refined products pipeline linking Kenya’s capital Nairobi with the port city of Mombasa is complete and ready for use, state-run Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) said on Wednesday. The More...
Kenyan Lady Pilots Perish
Lady Pilots that perished in the crash Barbra and Jean. The remains of the 10 passengers including two pilots of the ill fated Cessna 208 plane that crashed while enroute to Nairobi from Kitale have been moved to More...
Kenya oil production on course after agreement on revenue share
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya will start the small scale export of crude oil from its fields in the far northern county of Turkana in June after an agreement on how to share the revenue, averting delays, the presidency More...
Hope for Kenya as Uhuru Kenyatta & Raila Odinga agree to dialogue
Nairobi Star In a rare show of unity on Friday, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga told Kenyans they had set their differences aside and would work to unite the public. The two met at Harambee More...
African SMEs Set to Benefit from USD 74M Guarantee
The African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (AGF) (www.AfricanGuaranteeFund.com) has today entered into a re- guarantee transaction of an amount of up to USD 74 million with GuarantCo (www.GuarantCo.com), More...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Resigns to pave way for reform
AGENCIES Ethiopia’s prime minister says he has submitted his resignation as both prime minister and the chairman of the ruling coalition. Hailemariam Desalegn’s announcement comes amid a political crisis More...
We had a dream… 53 years on all we have are memories
East African You can’t deny it. Despite a few bright spots last year, the East African Project is in trouble. In Arusha, we have an East African Community (EAC) secretariat grappling with one of its most difficult More...
Young African women turn to coding
More women techies could help close income inequality gap By Fatimatou Sene At Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Angela Koranteng was an accomplished student with a special dream. At a time More...
Kenya announces Eurobond Roadshows
Kenya plans to hold an investor roadshow in mid-February to promote a planned Eurobond issue, the country’s central bank governor said on Friday. Patrick Njoroge did not disclose the sum involved. A source previously More...
