Author: Khusoko

Khusoko provides market insights into Africa's business investment as well as global trends that impact East African businesses.

Kenyans seeking to visit the United States will have to wait until June 2024 as, owing to high demand, no appointments for visa interviews are being issued. “Currently, the first available dates for a visitor visa appointment in Nairobi are in June 2024. U.S. Embassy Nairobi recognizes the significant challenges and frustrations this poses for Kenyans planning to visit the United States for business and tourism,” the embassy said in a statement on Monday. It said it will strive to meet the demand for visa services. The embassy added that due to Covid-19 health and safety measures, non-immigrant visa interviews…

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Politician and businessman Jimi Wanjigi has termed the numbers published by the Central Bank of Kenya as an outstanding public debt as being fictitious and meant to hoodwink Kenyans into paying for debts that do not exist. Speaking during the initiation of a public conversation on the state of the economy, a look at the public debt, Mr Wanjigi said that he commissioned a “first-ever fraud investigation into the public debt covering a period of eight financial years from 2014/15 to 2021/22. “I established red flags indicating that the public publicized outstanding public debt of Ksh 8.4 trillion appeared inauthentic. …

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We spend much of our lives in our bedrooms and bathrooms, sleeping, bathing, putting on make-up, and getting dressed. But if these two rooms in our homes—and the items in them—aren’t cleaned well, it can have detrimental effects on our health, from triggering allergies to causing skin infections. For a fresher space, try these handy tips from Aisha Pandor, CEO of SweepSouth, and the SweepStars, who keep thousands of homes clean every week. Clean out your make-up Your pretty makeup collection may be the last place you’d expect nasties to be crawling around. However, experts warn that dirty makeup brushes…

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