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15 Kenyan Startups Win Big in Covid-19 Innovation Challenge
Fifteen startups from different parts of the country have been awarded Sh10.3 million in the Great Covid-19 Innovation Challenge. The challenge that attracted...
JUDITH NDUNDE3 Mins read
Google’s Ksh2.7 Billion Plan to Empower African Women
The Google.org impact challenge is set to grant Ksh2.7 billion for women and girls' economic empowerment in Africa. The cash grants would cater...
GETRUDE NJERI2 Mins read
New Journalism Awards Celebrate Digital Shift Threatening Big Boys’ Revenues
On Monday, March 8, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK) announced the call for submissions for the 9th Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA)....
GETRUDE NJERI2 Mins read
Wealth Tax: Govt Plans Surprise for Kenya’s Super-Rich & High-Income Earners
The Treasury has confirmed that the government is mulling introducing higher taxes on Kenya's super-rich and high-income earners in the new budget starting...
MARTIN SIELE2 Mins read
Empowering Wanjiku in 2021: Here’s What We Must Do
This article is part of a week-long series from Business Today for Women's Month 2021. Enjoy the previous features celebrating African women and...
GETRUDE NJERI5 Mins read
Homeboyz Issues Profit Warning 3 Months After NSE Listing
Homeboyz Entertainment Plc on Tuesday, March 9 issued a profit warning, less than three months after its December 2020 listing on the Growth...
MARTIN SIELE2 Mins read
Covid-19 Vaccine: Why Kenya’s Sex Workers Should be First in Line
UNAIDS data indicates that there are more than 136,000 commercial sex workers in Kenya. Nairobi alone has over 20,000. Over the past year,...
MARTIN SIELE3 Mins read
Ksh18 Billion-a-Year Mitumba Industry Fights for Changes Amid Threats to Its Survival
The second-hand clothes sector in Kenya, better known as Mitumba, paid Ksh12 billion in taxes in 2019, and employs over 2 million people....
MARTIN SIELE3 Mins read
