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The top 10 banks in 2020 in Kenya accounted for 77.7 percent of industry assets, 80.7 percent of loans and…
British insurance company Prudential plc has submitted a letter of Intent to apply to join the newly established Nairobi International…
Lufthansa Group’s newest leisure airline Eurowings Discover has commenced direct flights to the Kenyan coast, at a time when the country’s…
Kenya’s economic indicators by sector for the first quarter of 2021 point to continued recovery from the adverse impact of…
The media and entertainment have seen a shift in favour of individual influencers who are now competing against established companies for advertising revenues.
This growth of micro-influencers has allowed advertisers to target influencers in their niche markets helping to lower advertising costs and maximize their returns.
The report expects the country to be a key driver of media industry revenues in Africa, on account of high internet and smartphone penetration.
A plan seeking to revive tourism in East Africa has been approved, following the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Devolution and the Arid and Semi-Arid…
A recent report showcasing how Covid-19 has affected travel with restrictions has shown that Kenya is the recent most banned…
Kenya’s agriculture sector grew by 5.1 percent in 2020, thereby preventing a contraction of the economy, amid the coronavirus pandemic,…
That year, in 2015, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania settled for a three-year plan to phase out the importation of used clothes, a major exporter been the United States. To realise the intended ban, taxes were increased on second-hand clothes were increased effectively deterring their importation. The plan was to completely ban the import of second-hand clothes as of 2019.
This ambitious vision was never realized as the Trump administration issued an ultimatum for EAC to rescind the ban on second-hand clothes by 23 February 2018 or, as the DW writer Isaac Mugabi puts it ‘face the consequences.’