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15 Mar 2024
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Kenya New levy lined up for State contractors The Treasury has introduced a new levy on contractors making supplies to both national and county governments, a shift likely to raise the cost of public ...
9 Mar 2024
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Kenya State risks losing Sh60m in cheap gas project. The project, which resumed in 2022 after stalling for years, is meant to wean poor households from the use of dirty wood fuel by providing them wit...
2 Feb 2024
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KENYA UK and Kenya in fierce tax fight The United Kingdom has made an official complaint over the higher import duty Kenya charged on some of its products, a senior government official has revealed. I...
26 Jan 2024
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KENYA Kenya in tight spot as EAC, European trade deals clash Kenya’s recently completed trade deals have run into stormy waters after Nairobi applied higher import duties on whiskies and wines from ...
20 Jan 2024
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KENYA Shilling falls to a new low of Sh160 to the dollar The shilling’s official exchange rate has hit Sh160.23 to the dollar, extending its record decline against the US currency on the back of pre...
12 Jan 2024
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Kenya State assures coffee farmers of Ksh.80 per kilo in new sector reforms Co-operatives and MSMEs Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui on Tuesday launched the Coffee Cherry Advance Fund, which could see...
25 Nov 2023
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Kenya Sugar factories roar to life again on December 1 Sugar millers are set to be re-opened on December 1 more than four months after they were ordered shut after most were accused of harvesting imma...
14 Nov 2023
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KENYA Kenya declines Uganda’s request to use oil pipeline An application by Uganda to use Kenya’s pipeline to transport its fuel was in September turned down by Kenya on concerns that the m...
30 Oct 2023
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Kenya Treasury cuts development, inflates budget by Sh187bn President William Ruto’s administration has cut development expenditure but increased its maiden budget by Sh187.3 billion i...
23 Oct 2023
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KENYA Foreign investors lower risk of Kenya defaulting on debt Overseas investors have lowered risk assessment on Kenya’s ability to repay its fast-rising external debts after the Central Bank of Ke...
16 Oct 2023
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KENYA CBK, investor standoff drives interest rates to 16-year high A standoff between investors and the Kenyan government over interest rates escalated this week after the sale of the Oc...
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