High youth unemployment exposes young Kenyans, like thousands across Africa, to exploitation and false promises of lucrative jobs abroad.Kenya has announced an amnesty for its citizens recruited to ...
A Kenyan mother is often the household CFO, procurement and logistics manager, school feesplanner, caregiver, entrepreneur, and emergency lender, all at once. Behind many homes is a woman making ...
The transport sector, especially operators of the "matatu" buses that provide most public transport in Kenya, called the ...
Kenya’s continued political malaise has had little impact on the country’s stock market and local currency so far, but analysts warn of a possible economic downturn by the end of the year after the ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenya's economy grew 4.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, a similar pace to the same period a year ago, driven by growth in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing, ...
Every day across Kenya, tonnes of food rot before reaching consumers. Fruits spoil in overheated trucks crawling along ...
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What Kenya’s economic numbers are really saying

Kenya’s economy is still growing, but the latest numbers from the Economic Survey 2026 suggest that the nature of that growth is changing.Beneath the headline GDP figures lies a more complex story: ...
In October, the country’s inflation rate hit 9.6%, its highest since May 2017. Since then, the inflation rate has slowly begun to drop. Last year, Kenya experienced one of its worst economic setbacks ...
ALMATY – Nearly 85% of all overland cargo traffic between China and Europe passes through Kazakhstan, and now Astana is ...
Kenya's ⁠economy grew ​4.6% in ‌2025, compared ‌with ⁠4.7% growth ⁠a year earlier, the ​statistics office ​said on Wednesday. The ⁠economy grew ⁠4.0% ⁠year-on-year in the ​fourth quarter ​of ⁠2025, ...
American Chamber of Commerce and U.S. Embassy in Kenya Host Creative Economy Networking Cocktail to Celebrate Kenya's Thriving Creative Economy. [David Gichuru, Standard] Kenya's creative economy is ...
High youth unemployment exposes young Kenyans, like thousands across Africa, to exploitation and false promises of lucrative ...