Approximately 60 percent of the capital raised by Kenyan startups in 2025 came in the form of debt financing, totaling about $582 million, while equity investment accounted for around $383 million.
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Carrefour noted that equipping employees with standardised and globally competitive skills would help prepare workers for the evolving demands of modern retail operations while supporting Kenya’s broader workforce development agenda.
By integrating AI into community health systems, the Ministry aims to improve service delivery, enable faster identification of health trends, and ensure resources are directed where they are needed most. The technology is expected to help community health promoters prioritize visits, identify at-risk patients, and track disease patterns in real time.
CMA has moved to bring robo-advisors and digital investment platforms into its licensing framework, responding to an explosion in app-based trading among tech-savvy Kenyans and marking a significant expansion of regulatory oversight over the country's rapidly digitizing investment landscape.
The master plan addresses every facet of JKIA operations. A second runway is targeted for completion by 2029, alongside wider airfield upgrades designed to increase declared capacity to approximately 63 aircraft movements per hour, a dramatic improvement from the current 14 movements per hour.
Under the partnership agreement, KIPPRA will conduct an in-depth, evidence-based assessment of KTDA's governance instruments, tea marketing frameworks, and operational guidelines. The review aims to identify policy gaps, update outdated provisions, clarify compliance obligations, and strengthen accountability mechanisms.
Lenacapavir, known as LEN, is administered subcutaneously every six months after initiation.
The Bank of Uganda has announced it will commence domestic gold purchases this month, targeting at least 100 kilograms between March and June 2026, as the East African nation moves to diversify its foreign exchange reserves and capitalize on record-high global gold prices.
The Central Bank of Kenya has officially approved Safaricom's request to mask customers' full names and phone numbers in Lipa na M-Pesa Till and Paybill transactions, ending a decade-long practice that left millions of Kenyans exposed to data harvesting and unsolicited marketing.
Seventeen African countries have signed bilateral health agreements with the United States under President Donald Trump's "America First" global health strategy, securing billions in funding but triggering a continent-wide backlash over demands for sensitive health data, mining access, and what critics describe as "lopsided" terms that undermine sovereignty.
