Business & Economy
An open dinning place and a sitting room at the MI VIDA homes at the Garden City in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] Behind the aggressive push fueling the construction boom under the affordable housing programme is a sustained narrative that Kenya…
A section of the Nairobi-Mombasa highway with the Standard Gauge Railway in the background. The road will now be expanded to accommodate more traffic. [David Gichuru, Standard] The government has abandoned the ambitious plan for the $3.6 billion…
A section of the Nairobi-Mombasa highway with the Standard Gauge Railway in the background. The road…
Pact paves way for Iran tea exports
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi speaks during the opening of the 7th Session of the Kenya–Iran…
Safaricom chief executive Peter Ndegwa. [File, Standard] Safaricom has committed Sh15 million towards this year’s devolution…
The latest data published by the Central Bank of Kenya shows the lending rate, as at June 2025, stood at 15.28 per cent. [Courtesy] When Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) Chief Finance Officer Kennedy Mutisya presented the innovative idea on how the…
Ngere tea factory in Murang’a performing better at the Mombasa Tea Auction. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard] The 70 small-scale tea holder factories last week netted Sh772.7…
Business Weekly Round Up
The electric car that President William Samoei Ruto drove during the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi. [Silas Otieno, Standard] As the global shift toward…
President William Ruto with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. April 24, 2025. [Courtesy, PCS]…
Vehicles at the Isuzu/General Motors (GM) parking yard along Mombasa Road, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has defended its decision…
Metropol CEO Gideon Kipyakwai during the release of the findings of a state of the economy ”Tala MoneyMarch” report survey conducted between January and February…