IFC and Standard Chartered Launch $300 Million Africa Supply Chain Facility
The International Finance Corporation and Standard Chartered have launched a $300 million risk-sharing facility to…
Standard Chartered Commits $2.33 Billion to Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway
Standard Chartered has arranged a $2.33 billion syndicated financing package for Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway…
Tech News
Kenya leads the world in artificial intelligence adoption. It also leads in an inability to detect what AI produces. Those two facts, sitting side by…
HEALTH
Three in Four Kenyan Women Want to Plan Their Pregnancies. The System Is Still Catching Up
Seven in ten married women of reproductive age in Kenya want to control when, or whether, they have children. The National Update on Family Planning shows that 76% of married women under 49 need contraception, either to space their pregnancies or stop having children altogether. Specifically, 46% say they do…
COMMENTARY
Kenya’s Women Journalists Are Entering the Newsroom and Leaving Too Soon
Kenya’s media sector draws young women in and pushes them out before they reach their prime. That is the central finding of the State of…


