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Communications Authority of Kenya acting director-general, Mercy Wanjau, is making her presence felt at the telecommunications regulator. Hardly a month into office, Wanjau has reshuffled her senior management team in what she says are efforts to enhance service delivery and enable the authority to realise its vision of a digitally
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The risk of the Kenyan shilling depreciating is high in the short-term due to dollar demand as the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) removal of old Sh1,000 currency notes from the circulation draws to a close. An analysis by Sterling Investment Bank indicates that Kenyans are seeking to hold
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Food servings in Kenyan households have shrunk and the number of meals per day has become less frequent. This is driven by budget squeeze as new data reveals that the current food prices are at a five year high. Citizens bear with the growing load of cash crunch in the
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The Treasury and former prime minister Raila Odinga are locked in a standoff over a freeze of his pension perks due to the African Union job and failure to return government cars after leaving office as PM in 2013. The State has frozen the lavish retirement benefits due to Mr
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British Prime minister Boris Johnson has been dealt another blow as his brother Jo Johnson announced that he is quitting the UK government. In a tweet, Jo Johnson said that he has been torn between family and loyalty and the national interest as a whole. He further said that it
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The simplicity and cost-effectiveness of the public cloud have led more and more organizations to take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You can spin up a new instance in minutes, scale resources up and down whenever you need while only paying for
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Tenders for supply and provision of various goods and services are advertised daily across the country. Unfortunately, many Kenyans have been disillusioned by the concept of ‘tenderpreneurship’, where they submit applications for tenders, but the awards go to those who seem to have the ‘right’ connections. Further, many of those
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The affordable housing initiative will result in more private real estate developers shifting from targeting high-end buyers to housing the low-and middle-income market segments, experts have said. Under the Affordable Housing pillar of the Big Four agenda, the government plans to build 500,000 housing units by 2022. According Cytonn
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By AFP Cancer has become the leading cause of death in rich nations, overtaking heart disease, according to the results of two landmark, decade-long global surveys of health trends released Tuesday. Heart disease remains the leading cause of mortality among middle-aged adults globally, accounting for more than 40 per cent
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The board of Capital Markets Authority has kicked off the search for a new Chief Executive Officer to succeed Paul Muthaura whose term ends this year. The search for the CEO has been announced in a job advertisement with applicants asked to apply until September 27, 2019, when it will
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Central Bank Numismatic Museum at the Nairobi National Museum says Kenyan currency has an eight-step life cycle that runs from unwoven cotton up to when it is shredded and turned into briquettes. The life cycle begins when locally grown cotton is processed and converted into the white paper used to
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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has issued a warrant of arrest for child star Wendy Waeni’s former manager Joseph Nduta Mwangi. Joe Mwangi as many know him is wanted by authorities in connection with forgery and issuing threats to the girl’s mother Magdalene Mbele. https://twitter.com/