Dennis Musau
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Kenya's Roam, M-Kopa and Quickmart on FT Africa’s fastest-growing companies list
The ranking assessed over 130 companies across Africa based on their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and revenue growth between 2020 and 2023.
US Senate questions Kenya’s loyalty after Ruto China trip
U.S. Senator Jim Risch, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says America should exercise restraint with African nations like Kenya which maintain “troubling” ties with China.He took an issue with Ruto calling Nairobi and Beijing “co-architects of a new world order.”
25 million Kenyans have borrowed Ksh.70B from Hustler Fund: Oparanya
Oparanya told senators that the fund has to date reached over 25 million Kenyans, 48 per cent of whom are women.He said two million have since been promoted to the bridging band and qualify for bigger loans.
Getaway rider in murder of MP Charles Were arrested: DCI
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says a man identified as Amos Barasa Kasili was arrested in Nairobi’s Kibera area after a forensic investigation placed him at the crime scene.
Payments platform Verto wins Ksh.129M Milken-Motsepe Prize in FinTech
The Milken-Motsepe Prize in FinTech, a $2 million initiative by the Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation, attracted over 3,000 entrepreneurs from 126 countries.
Waititu’s Farmers Party announces protest to ‘re-install’ Gachagua as DP
Famers Party, which last month left President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza alliance, wrote to the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to request security for the planned demos.
‘UDA has exhausted and wasted Kenya’: Gachagua finally leaves Ruto’s party
In a letter to the UDA secretary-general which he also shared on his social media accounts, the former DP said the party he “believed in” turned out to be “the most dangerous political moment” for Kenyans, saying its “retrogressive philosophy” is unfit to rule the country....
Zoho’s low-code development platform gets AI capabilities
Zoho says the platform’s new AI assistant, CoCreator, will facilitate faster, simpler, and more intelligent app building by using voice and written prompts, process flows, and business specification documents.
Finance Bill 2025 raises minimum taxable daily per diem to Ksh.10K
Under the current tax regime, the first Ksh.2,000 per day of subsistence, travelling and entertainment allowance are excluded from one’s taxable income.
Sifuna: I am not interested in a Cabinet position
Sifuna’s Kisumu counterpart and fellow ODM member Tom Ojienda suggested that the Nairobi senator was interested in the Gender Cabinet Secretary post recently filled by Hanna Cheptumo.