Mabani Aljazeera Holding Group, a leading Saudi construction and investment firm, has bought into one of East Africa’s largest mixed use developments. Through its subsidiary Swan Properties, the company acquired a fifty percent minus one share stake in Jabali Towers at Tatu City Special Economic Zone. Rendeavour, the zone’s owner and developer, keeps majority control. The deal marks a significant moment for foreign investment in Kenya. It signals confidence from a major Gulf investor and reinforces Tatu City’s position as a magnet for capital flowing into the country. Government Welcomes the Investment Cabinet Secretary for Investment, Trade, and Industry Hon.…
Author: Lynet Awino
Lynet Awino
Lynet Okumu, a Masinde Muliro University graduate, is a digital journalist passionate about impactful storytelling. She writes on health, business, relationships, and daily life, blending accuracy and creativity to craft engaging, informative content.
Kenya Airways is dusting off a giant it once sent away. The airline will return its Boeing 777-300ER to scheduled commercial service on the Nairobi to London Heathrow route starting 17 July 2026, ending a decade in which the 400 seat jet flew for other carriers instead of its own. A Decade Away and Why It Ended The story of this aircraft did not begin with triumph. Kenya Airways took delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER in October 2013, building a fleet of three to support long haul growth under its original Project Mawingu plan. Financial strain forced a rethink…
Nigeria and Kenya are producing some of the most streamed music on the planet. Yet nearly $286 million in recorded music revenue from those two countries alone never reaches the people who made it, according to research from the Music Economy Development Initiative (MEDI), a partnership between the Center for Music Ecosystems and Global Citizen. That figure lands at an awkward moment. In 2025, Sub Saharan Africa’s recorded music revenues climbed 15.2 percent to reach $120 million, according to IFPI’s Global Music Report 2026, with South Africa alone accounting for 78.1 per cent of total revenues after recording a 12.9…
A new Kenyan music romance drama is heading to the big screen this August, and it brings with it an original soundtrack built from scratch for the film. Tides, written and directed by Reuben Odanga (Mo-Faya, Nafsi), premieres at Century Cinemax on 8 August, with further screenings to follow across Century Cinemax locations in Nairobi. Tickets for the premiere are already on sale here. What the film is about Set on the Kenyan coast, Tides follows Salma and Biko, a musician couple whose livelihood is drying up just as their daughter’s serious medical condition drains their finances. As survival grows…
Kenya’s largest power producer just put a number on seven decades of work. In its inaugural standalone Sustainability Report, Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) revealed that it dispatched 95% of its electricity from renewable sources during the financial year ending June 30, 2025, while holding its carbon emission intensity to 0.06089 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per megawatt hour. The company now wants to push that intensity down further, to 0.05115 tCO2e/MWh, by 2030. KenGen reported its sustainability data inside its annual financial statements since 2015 and joined the UN Global Compact in 2019. This year, for the first time,…
Most people plan to start saving properly next month. Then next month arrives, and the money that should have funded that plan has already gone to a dozen small purchases that felt necessary at the time. The gap between people who build real financial security and people who don’t rarely comes down to income. It comes down to one habit: saving first, with a tool that makes the habit stick. What Is M-Shwari? M-Shwari is a mobile savings and loan service run jointly by NCBA Bank and Safaricom, and you access it straight from the M-Pesa menu on your phone.…