Absa Bank Kenya, for its part, has trained over 200,000 youth since the programme's inception in 2015. Absa's Ready-to-Work initiative is a free training curriculum that provides young people with work experience, people skills, money skills, and entrepreneurial skills that ...
There have been previous efforts to promote digital learning in schools in Kenya, but these have faced a plethora of challenges, slowing down the whole EdTech agenda. Consider the government’s digital learning programme initiated in 2013, aimed at providing all public schools with laptops a...
Over the past three decades, Kenya has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the number and activities of these organisations, underpinned by their ability to pool resources effectively. In the recently published Annual NGO Sector Report for the year 2021/2022, the sector c...
Japan has been contributing to Kenya’s power generation for the past 40 years. In Kenya, 45 percent of the total electricity supply comes from geothermal power generation. More than 80 percent of such geothermal power has been generated by Japanese turbines, which are not only v...
Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Kenya warned Kenyan citizens against sharing personal data with private companies. ...
Banks need the valuations done so as not to be left short in the cover for the secured loan facilities. Home loans also attract stamp duty, levied by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) at 4.0 percent of cost of property or value on the open market, and an additional 0.1 percent of ...
Her point of divergence (from passion to business) came in 2015 when they came back to Kenya and officially set up the business from a guest room in her apartment. She wanted the Kiswahili word Pambo in her assemblage of business names. Her children were learning rhyming words th...
Today, the policy is not serious about reviving coffee because the contemporary Kikuyu elite no longer have a big stake or interest in the crop. The contemporary Mount Kenya elite have shifted interests to banking and insurance, the stock exchange, investment banking and to the lucrative property...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as high blood pressure (hypertension), in low and middle-income countries including Kenya, are increasing rapidly.
However, with fierce competition and numerous startups vying for attention, it can be challenging to stand out from the crowd. Within the last two years, more than 25 startups in Kenya have announced full closure, with several others downsizing their staff and operatio...