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MARTIN SIELE

Martin K.N Siele is the Content Lead at Business Today. He is also a Quartz contributor and a 2021 Baraza Media Lab-Fringe Graph Data Storytelling Fellow. Passionate about digital media, sports and entertainment, Siele also founded Loud.co.ke

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Britam headquarters in Nairobi. The firm expects to conclude a restructuring process in May 2021.

BUSINESS ECONOMY MARKETS

Britam Sends 138 Workers Home as Restructuring Begins

The firm, which recently appointed strategy expert Tavaziva Madzinga as CEO following the retirement of Benson Wairegi after 40 years at the firm,...

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M-Pesa shops pictured in Nairobi. A bill before Parliament, if it sails through, would see Safaricom's telecommunications and mobile money divisions split up.

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What Safaricom Would Look Like Broken Up as MPs Push to Split Telco

The bill seeks to amend Section 25 of the Kenya Information and Communications Act to require anyone operating a telecommunications service to “obtain...

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BUSINESS ECONOMY

Moi Men Take on The Govt in Battle for Kenya Seed Company & Its Billions

Led by former CEO Nathaniel Tum, the private shareholders have summoned an annual shareholder meeting. They plan to appoint new directors and a...

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A smartphone user in Kenya. Many Kenyans use digital lending services to access loans, despite numerous pitfalls.

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Mobile Loans: New Bill Changes Lenders’ Playbook

The ease of sending and receiving funds via mobile money in Kenya, as well as the country's relatively high internet penetration rate have...

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A PayPal user looks at the mobile app on their smartphone. Kenyan users of the payments service, mostly freelancers, are up in arms over its controversial holding of payments.

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

PayPal Nightmare Experiences Leave Kenyan Writers, Online Freelancers Broke & Distressed

Numerous Kenyan freelancers have been left frustrated and distressed thanks to their experiences with the service. With payments withheld and some losing their...

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(L-R) Flavia Othim, KBL Head of Spirits, Joel Kamau, KBL Commercial Director with Yvonne Mwangi, Diageo Global Sales Execution Lead Africa at the launch of the Diageo Bartenders Academy at K1 Johnnie Walker Bar. The Academy intends to train 10,000 bartenders in the country over the next four months.

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10,000 Kenyan Bartenders to Receive World Class Training at New Diageo Academy

With bars' operating hours in Kenya restricted due to Covid-19 restrictions, many bartenders have been engaged in other activities even as others grapple...

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