Author: Muindi

Kenya’s supermarket sector is on the move, and two chains are pulling in opposite directions on scale while chasing the same prize: shoppers closer to home. Uchumi Supermarkets has opened a new branch in Kitengela, growing its network to three outlets, while Naivas has pushed past 110 stores nationwide with a fresh opening in Ruiru. Both moves point to a retail market pivoting away from large regional malls toward neighbourhood shopping. Uchumi Rebuilds With A Third Branch Uchumi opened its Kitengela branch, at Shell Yukos, earlier this month, joining its Langata outlet on Carnivore Way and its Unicity branch near…

South Sudan just told most of its neighbours to pay up at the border. Juba’s Interior Ministry has rewritten its visa policy, and the new rules land unevenly across a region that has spent a decade talking about open borders. Egyptians and Tanzanians walk in free. Everyone else, including citizens of Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, now needs a single entry visa priced at 100 dollars, though the ministry has carved out discounted rates for those three neighbours specifically. South Sudan sits inside the East African Community, a bloc built on the promise of free movement, and…

Kenya Airways has restored its Boeing 777-300ER to commercial service, deploying the 400 seat widebody on the Nairobi to London Heathrow route starting July 17, 2026. The aircraft nearly doubles the seat count of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner it partly replaces, and it marks the return of the largest passenger jet the airline has ever flown. Today, we marked the inaugural B777-300ER flight to London, bringing together government leaders, industry partners, our customers, and the Kenya Airways family to celebrate a new chapter in our journey. As the aircraft departed for London, it carried with it our commitment to… pic.twitter.com/as0e25H76r…

Kenya’s retirement benefits industry grew its investment assets by 26.6% in 2025, reaching KES 2.72 trillion, up from KES 2.15 trillion the year before. Surprisingly, pension funds continuing to lean heavily on government paper even as equities staged a strong comeback. Government Securities Still Anchor the Portfolio Kenya Government Securities remained the industry’s dominant holding, growing 28.3% to KES 1.39 trillion and accounting for 50.98% of total assets. That’s more than half of every shilling Kenyan pension schemes have invested, a reminder that fund managers still treat government debt as their safest long term bet, especially with yields staying attractive…

Kenya’s draft 2025 Code of Corporate Governance does not stop at asking companies to report on sustainability. It builds a path toward having that data checked by someone outside the company, the same way financial statements already are. Sustainability Risk Joins the Main Risk Register The Code requires boards to fold sustainability risk, including climate transition and physical climate risk, into the same risk taxonomy, registers, and controls the company already uses for financial and operational risk. This is not a side list. It sits inside the enterprise risk management system and flows into the annual report through the same…

Administrators have started marketing the assets of Koko Networks, the clean‑cooking startup founded in 2013, marking the first major step toward winding down the company after its collapse in January. Koko filed for administration on the brink of bankruptcy on February 1 after Kenyan authorities refused it a Letter of Approval to sell carbon credits in the lucrative compliance markets, the foundation of the startup’s business model. The sale advances Koko’s insolvency process after the company shut down operations and laid off more than 700 employees when the Kenyan government declined to approve the authorisation needed to unlock carbon credit…