“Openness brings progress while seclusion leads to backwardness.” – President of China Xi Jinping Kenyan farmers will now be able to export their agricultural products to China after they signed a formal agreement. “After a week of delicate negotiations, formal sanitary and phytosanitary agreements have been signed between Kenya and China for Kenya‘s Agriculture produce to enter the Chinese market,” Nzioka Waita, State House Chief of Staff tweeted on Friday. The country will now export avocados, french beans, mangoes, peanuts, and hides and skins. Other products include legumes, vegetables and fruits, herbs, meat, bixa, macademia nuts, gum Arabica, myrrh and Asian…
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Telkom Kenya has appointed Mugo Kibati as its Chief executive taking over from Aldo Mareuse. Eddy Njoroge, the chairman of the Board said Mareuse was moving on to pursue other interests having led the company from mid-2016. “The Board is very grateful to Aldo for his leadership of the company over the last three years,” said Eddy. “We wish him the very best in his future endeavours.” During his tenure, Mareuse is credited with the expansion of the company’s network by over 50%, successful rebranding of the company to Telkom and rolling out of a 4G network. Kibati who is…
International passenger traffic growth in Africa has improved by 6.0% measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) in September, down from 6.8% in August according to the latest data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Capacity rose 4.9% and load factor edged up 0.8 percentage point to 74.6%. “The healthy growth is taking place against an increasingly challenging economic backdrop for the region’s largest economies of South Africa and Nigeria,” said IATA in its September report. “While such growth was a slight deceleration from August, the bigger picture is that the upward SA demand trend remains strong, and annual RPK…
Kenya is one of the 12 African nations chosen by Spanish retailer Inditex SA (ITX.MC) that its flagship brand Zara will launch a new platform bringing its fashions to customers. Most of these new markets are in Africa and include Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Ghana, among others. The online store is also making its début in numerous parts of the Caribbean and Asia. Chief Executive Pablo Isla said in a statement that all of Inditex’s brands “will be available online anywhere in the world by 2020.” Read: Spanish fashion house Mango…
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Bizna Kenya has unveiled 32 finalists for the Inaugural Young Entrepreneurs Awards (YEA Awards) 2018. “We are delighted to host this event and celebrate young entrepreneurs who are doing tremendous work to meet needs in the society,” said Bizna Kenya Founder and CEO Tonnie Mello. “Young people lead the way in many endeavours in life, especially in entrepreneurship and we are happy to cheer them on. With this initiative, things can only get better in Kenyan businesses.” The prestigious YEA Awards is designed to recognize, celebrate and encourage upcoming and industrious young entrepreneurs aged (18 – 35 years) to improve how…