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View More NewsAudio By Vocalize Co-operative Bank of Kenya hosted the inaugural Captains’ Club Network Gala Dinner, Coast Edition. The event brought together more than 100 Executive Plus clients from across the…
Audio By Vocalize Samasource Impact Sourcing (Sama), the outsourcing firm that has been moderating content for Meta at its Nairobi operation, will lay off more than 1,100 of its Kenyan…
Audio By Vocalize Constitutional lawyer Suleiman Bashir during the interview in his office at Transnational Plaza in Nairobi on Thursday. [James Wanzala, Standard] The move to reduce Value Added Tax…
Audio By Vocalize Markets climb as ceasefire hopes lift global sentiment. [File Courtesy] Stock markets advanced Thursday on expectations that a Mideast ceasefire would soon let oil and gas tankers…
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Audio By Vocalize Cubans during celebrations marking the victory on the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the declaration of the socialist…
Audio By Vocalize A group of bloggers in Guinea denounced Thursday what it called a “targeted” blockage of social media sites by the West African…
Opinion
Audio By Vocalize The late Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o. [FILE] The late literary luminary Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a televised interview, once asserted that one who abandons their mother tongue in favour of a…
Audio By Vocalize Some journeys are not measured in years but in endurance, silence, rejection, and the quiet decision to keep going when nothing seems to move. Writing my inaugural column in The Standard marks…
Audio By Vocalize United Nations General Assembly in a previous meeting.[Courtesy] The veteran politician, who inspired populist movements, alienated his nation from the European Union and turned Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy into a punching bag, lost…
Audio By Vocalize Jua kali artisans in Naivasha. The informal sector in Kenya employed about 15.26 million individuals as of 2021.[Antony Gitonga, Standard] The best way to measure an economy’s health is how well ordinary…
Arts & Culture
A professor, regarded as the pinnacle of academic success, is 67 days unpaid, struggles to meet rent and family needs, and wonders whether the success he pursued was ever real.This is the conflict explored in On the Uselessness of…
James Rugami aka Real Vinyl Guru will be hosting World Record Store Day tomorrow (April 18)…
Sculptor Gakunju Kaigwa turns fallen trees into functional art in ‘Ancestral Grain’ Since childhood, sculptor Gakunju…
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath [Courtesy] Everyone knows the Mona Lisa painting and the Italian…
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Audio By Vocalize Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over US blockade. [AFP] Iran’s military declared the Strait of Hormuz closed again on Saturday,…
Audio By Vocalize More than 30 civil society organisations are mounting pressure on the World Bank Group to halt billions of shillings channelled into…
Audio By Vocalize Co-operative Bank of Kenya hosted the inaugural Captains’ Club Network Gala Dinner, Coast Edition. The event brought together more than 100…
Audio By Vocalize Dementia is an umbrella term for several diseases affecting memory, other cognitive abilities and behaviour. [iStockphoto] A sentence in my Dad’s…