How Real Estate Firms Are Readjusting Post Covid-19

As soon as the novel coronavirus disease struck in early 2020, reality checked in and everything changed, but not for good. Each and...

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Sex workers pictured in Nairobi. Commercial sex workers are calling on the government to include them in the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Kenya.

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Covid-19 Vaccine: Why Kenya’s Sex Workers Should be First in Line

Kenya needs to consider the welfare of sex workers even as it rolls out Covid-19 vaccination in hospitals across the country. Not only...

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IBM has collaborated with more than 65 ecosystem partners to build secure cloud services helping clients run workloads in any environment via IBM Cloud Satellite.

BUSINESS ECONOMY TECHNOLOGY

IBM Cloud Satellite Makes Services Available for Any Environment

As workloads shift to the edge, IBM Cloud Satellite will help clients deliver low latency, while still enabling them to have the same...

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A gate at the Lang'ata Women's Prison. Interior CS has proposed that prisons in Nairobi be moved to other towns.

CITY DIARY ECONOMY REAL ESTATE

Free Up Prime Land by Moving Prisons Out of Nairobi – Matiang’i

Kamiti, for instance, sits on a 1,200 acre land parcel in Kiambu with most of it undeveloped. According to the Hass Land Index...

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BUSINESS CITY DIARY

6,000 Nairobi Bars, Restaurants to Receive Covid-19 Safety Training

The training program is part of Diageo's Ksh.11 billion ($100 million) global fund to support bars and pubs bounce back after months of...

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Team members look on as a Mobius II rolls off the ramp at the firm’s new factory in Narobi during a launch ceremony in January 2021. The firm secured court protection after KRA slapped it with a Ksh73 million tax bill.

BUSINESS ECONOMY MARKETS

KRA Tax Bill Threatens to Kill Mobius Motors’ African Dream

The legal battle played out barely a month after Mobius launched its new Ksh330 million production facility in Nairobi - at a ceremony...

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BUSINESS ECONOMY MARKETS

CitiBank Announces Ksh300 Million Facility for 25,000 Women-Owned Businesses

He disclosed that Citibank, alongside 4G Capital, would support 25,000 entities through their smart partnership. The capital they intend to incur would be...

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A Stanbic Bank branch in Kenya. The firm declared a Ksh5.2B after tax profit in 2020.

BUSINESS ECONOMY MARKETS

Stanbic Braves Covid-19 Storm to Record Ksh5.2B Profit for 2020

It defied challenges including Covid-19 restrictions, subdued interest rates, weakening of the local currency and increased regulations. The pandemic and its impact on...

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