Kenya Electricity Imports From Ethiopia 2026: 400 MW Deal
Kenya's Ethiopian power contract doubled to 400 MW in July at 15.5 US cents a unit, up from 6.5 in...
September 15, 2026Section
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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
South African Banks Race Into Kenya as FirstRand Waits
Nedbank has taken control of NCBA and Absa has raised its stake. FirstRand wants in, and its chief executive says...
September 14, 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
Taxes in Kenya for Expats 2026: The Health Levy Cap Is Gone
Kenya scrapped the cap on health contributions, so a high earner now pays sixteen times what the old scheme cost....
September 14, 2026
Kenya Safety for Expats 2026: The Roads, Not the Terrorists
Kenya's murder rate is about two-thirds of the American one and the dangerous areas are peripheral. Traffic is the risk...
September 14, 2026
Healthcare in Kenya for Expats: What SHA Covers and What It Does Not
Kenya’s new health authority, what it pays, why private hospitals are turning it away, and what a foreign resident should...
September 14, 2026