Equity Group Holdings, Kenya second-largest lender by assets, is in the advanced stages of spinning off its technology subsidiary into an independent company to unlock more value from the increasing use of artificial intelligence AI, data-driven services, cross-border transactions and digital payments, according to three people familiar with the matter. The Nairobi-headquartered conglomerate — which…
Kenya’s Public Service Commission has raised the retirement age for university lecturers to 70 years for professors, introducing a tiered system aimed at retaining experienced educators and researchers in public institutions. The policy, announced on Thursday, replaces the previous uniform retirement age of 60 and sets different limits based on academic rank and disability status….
Kenya’s agricultural exports worth about KSh300 million to the Middle East have been disrupted by the ongoing conflict in the region, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has warned, as Gulf airspace closures and shipping uncertainty threaten to unravel years of trade growth. The warning comes as US-Israeli military strikes inside Iran triggered a cascade of…
For decades, Kenya’s senior judges served under a retirement system critics described as fragmented, unpredictable, and constitutionally inadequate. That era has now come to a formal close. President William Ruto has signed the Judges’ Retirement Benefits Act into law, establishing the country’s first comprehensive statutory framework dedicated exclusively to pension and post-retirement benefits for judges…
Kenya has added its voice to growing international concern over the spiraling violence in the Middle East, sharply criticizing Iran missile and drone barrages that have struck several Gulf countries. Kenya Condemnation President William Ruto issued a firm condemnation on 2 March 2026, describing the attacks as a reckless expansion of the conflict. He singled…
Russia embassy in Kenya on Thursday flatly rejected allegations that it had recruited Kenyan citizens to fight in the war in Ukraine, calling media reports to that effect “dangerous and misleading” and insisting that any Kenyans serving in the Russian armed forces had done so of their own accord. The denial came amid mounting pressure…
A Nairobi court on Wednesday released civil society activist Mwabili Mwagodi on a KSh500,000 bond, refusing to extend his detention as police press ahead with an investigation into allegations that he spread false information through his social media account. Principal Magistrate Irene Thamana of the Milimani Law Courts declined the prosecution’s request to hold Mwagodi…
Iran has sharply criticised Kenya for failing to hold accountable the officials and traders it says are responsible for a fraudulent tea export deal worth KSh2.6 billion (USD 20 million), warning that Nairobi inaction is the principal obstacle to restoring a trade relationship that once supplied Iran with millions of kilograms of Kenyan tea annually….
A sharp political rupture has cracked open inside Kenya’s Orange Democratic Movement after Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino issued a combative declaration Thursday, warning that the party’s decision to remove Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna as Secretary General amounts to a violation of the ODM constitution and will not go unchallenged. Speaking before journalists…
Kenya’s Central Bank on Tuesday raised Ksh100.5 billion in a heavily oversubscribed treasury bond auction, as investors rushed to lock in double-digit returns on two reopened long-dated government securities, underscoring robust appetite for Kenyan sovereign debt amid an evolving monetary policy environment. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) had advertised a target of Ksh50 billion…
