Mombasa Port Empty Container Backlog Deepens as Kenya Enters Peak Import Season
The Mombasa Port empty container backlog has reached about 167,000 boxes, with Kenyan hauliers putting detention losses at roughly US$16...
September 17, 2026Topic
Kenya
Kenya Livestock Project Gets US$55 Million More From IFAD
IFAD has approved an additional US$55 million, about Sh7.1 billion, to expand Kenya’s livestock commercialization project in the dryland counties.
September 16, 2026
Kenya Digital Economy Project Has Spent 8% of Its Loan
Kenya and the World Bank reviewed the US$390 million digital economy project on 14 September. By February, 8.2% had been...
September 16, 2026
Kenya Sugar Protection Lapses and Nairobi Looks Again
Kenya’s COMESA sugar safeguard expired on 30 November 2025 after 24 years. The East African reports Nairobi is now exploring...
September 16, 2026
Kenya Court Voids Safaricom Stake Sale to Vodacom
Three High Court judges ruled Kenya’s sale of 15% of Safaricom to Vodacom unconstitutional and ordered the shares restored to...
September 16, 2026
Airtel Closes Kenyan Fibre Arm That Never Made a Sale
Airtel is winding up Airtel Kenya Telesonic, its wholesale fibre subsidiary. It never recorded revenue and lost KES 16.1 million...
September 15, 2026
A Methamphetamine Case Built on a Boat With No Flag Reaches a Kenyan Courtroom
The vessel carried no flag, no registration and no transponder, 350 nautical miles off Mombasa. A magistrate has ruled there...
September 14, 2026
Kenya Fuel Prices Hold Steady for a Month, and a Third of What Drivers Pay Is Tax
The regulator froze pump prices for the cycle to 14 October. Petrol in Nairobi costs about US$1.65 a litre, and...
September 14, 2026
The Jamaica Remittance Market Takes In US$3.5 Billion a Year. Africa Sends Almost None of It.
Jamaicans abroad sent home US$3.49bn last year, and nearly all of it came from North America. A Nairobi company wants...
September 14, 2026