EAST AFRICA

Prostate cancer patients covered by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) can now access an innovator prescription drug manufactured and distributed by Janssen Kenya, one of the pharmaceutical companies of …

Pesapal Uganda has received a nod from the Bank of Uganda to operate as a Payment System Operator. The firm’s Uganda Country Director Martin Barungi said with the license, pesapal will be …

Olympia capital holding limited has recorded a net profit of ksh 17,496,000 for the financial year ended 28th February 2022. This is compared to a net loss of KSh 1,113,000 …

State-owned National Oil Corporation of Kenya will from August start shipping fuel from Saudi Arabia at lower prices than the global rates in the latest push by the government to …

The Nairobi Securities Exchange(NSE) recorded a significant decline in daily equity turnover on the first day of this trading week to KSh 515.6m compared to KSh 1.2 billion when trading …

Kenyan-based  cloud kitchen Kune foods has shut down operations barely a year after its launch with its founder and Chief Executive Officer Robin Reecht blaming the “economic downturn and investment …

The government is developing a national e-commerce Strategy (ECS) to boost Kenya’s economic opportunities that are supportive of the country’s strategic goals and Vision 2030. Industrialization, Trade, and Enterprise Development …

Sri Lanka has closed schools and halted all non-essential government services, beginning a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opened talks with Colombo on …

Kenya has begun importing maize to address a biting shortage that has left 3.1 million people in arid and semi-arid lands without enough food. Most of the maize consignment is …

The First ever rice symposium organized by the Korea-Africa Food and Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (KAFACI) is being held in Kenya, under the Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization (KALRO). The symposium …