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It’s nothing new. Small business owners in Kenya have been grumbling with access to finance and the high cost of credit. And, after the Intrest rate caps in 2016, the problem became worse. The Central Bank of Kenya says that about eighty percent of the MSME’s in the country go out business before they can celebrate their second birthday.

In August last year, when President Uhuru held a meeting with his American counterpart President Donald Trump in Washington D.C – Among the items in the bag of goodies he brought back home was a strategic bilateral partnership that granted Kenya certain special privileges when doing business with the United States. The two Presidents set out to craft a working group whose sole...

On September 3rd, Telkom Kenya CEO Mr. Mugo kibati caused a sensation when he accused Safaricom of frustrating an intended merger with Airtel – before it emerged that it was indeed anti-corruption detectives who had frozen it after smelling a rat in previous deal carried out by Telkom. During the release of its half-year results for the period ended September 30th, Safaricom CEO,...

The Ethiopian government is soon expected to grant a telecom license to two new international telecoms with Safaricom poised to be among the beneficiaries. Despite a tough regulatory environment plus the incumbent telco – Ethio Telcom enjoying several state privileges, Safaricom which recently marked 19 years in business - will be betting on Ethiopia’s massive population of over 122 Million and low mobile money penetration...

The joy that comes from munching a supremely baked caked cannot be underestimated. In every decent restaurant, cake is almost always an ubiquitous site; strategically positioned in a manner designed to arouse cake lovers’ sensory cues even before they sermon the steward - to place that order. Read also: Master brewer shares the keys to crafting the finest beer

Before his untimely demise, Bob Collymore had spent his last years at Safaricom trying to figure out the future of East Africa’s most profitable company. He had decided that the company needed to transform into a digital company and not just a mobile telecom and had spent his time trying his hands at e-commerce, a digital music studio, home fiber and he pioneered a...