Manufucturing Stories

Cheaper manufacturing signals hope for lower retail prices
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 28, 2025

Producer inflation, which captures the changes in costs before goods reach the consumer, can influence retail prices.

Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF proposes constitutional amendment to keep Mnangagwa in power
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 19, 2025

The announcement was met with jubilation from ZANU-PF members, even though Mnangagwa, 83, is constitutionally required to step down in 2028 after two...

KANU Youth Congress denounce Ruto-Moi pact, say deal unilateral
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 14, 2025

Speaking at the party headquarters in Nairobi, the youth argued that no alliance or coalition can save the regime that violates constitutional governa...

Triple Kenyan power: Kipyegon, Chebet, Wanyonyi nominated for global athletics awards
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 13, 2025

According to the global athletics body, voting is currently underway to determine the two finalists in each category before the overall winners are an...

Rajoelina flees Madagascar as military mutiny and protests escalate
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 13, 2025

The evacuation reportedly followed an understanding reached with French President Emmanuel Macron, though French officials insist they are not interve...

Kenya’s manufacturing growth slows despite increased borrowing
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 13, 2025

The sector’s real GDP expanded by one per cent compared to 3.2 per cent in the same period last year, even as loans to manufacturers rose by Sh17.2 bi...

Gideon Moi's KANU party joins broad-based government in yet another political realignment
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 10, 2025

President Ruto described KANU as “fundamental to the nation” and emphasised that his outreach to Gideon Moi was part of a broader plan to unite the co...

Kamukunji’s Kinyago Kanuku hosts groundbreaking breast and cervical cancer screening
Charity Kilei  |  Oct 09, 2025

The initiative marks a key milestone in efforts to improve healthcare access and cancer prevention in informal settlements, where barriers have histor...

Government defends four per cent sugar levy amid pushback from millers
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 02, 2025

This is despite pushback from millers who argue that the levy will increase their financial burden.

Pathologist: Kianjokoma brothers died from blunt trauma, not fall from police vehicle
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 25, 2025

Police at the time alleged that the siblings had leapt from a moving vehicle while being taken to Embu Police Station for breaching COVID-19 curfew ru...

Community devastated after fire claims child’s life, destroys homes in Kamukunji’s Kinyago Kanuku
Charity Kilei  |  Sep 22, 2025

The fire broke out around 10 am, rapidly tearing through the tightly packed, flammable makeshift homes and filling the air with thick smoke for over t...

Lack of streetlights on Eastleigh's Keroe Street raises security concerns
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Sep 15, 2025

The absence of lighting has created insecurity, with many people avoiding the road at night and calling for urgent action from Nairobi City County to...

KANU secretary-general speaks out after arrest over lawyer Kyalo Mbobu’s shocking murder
Barack Oduor  |  Sep 15, 2025

He explained that on that fateful day, Mbobu was meeting with a neighbour, and their interaction was only a brief exchange of greetings.

Should African countries lower the voting age to 16? Views from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria
The Conversation  |  Sep 13, 2025

For African countries, where young people make up the majority of the population but often feel shut out of politics, the question is especially press...

KAM demands regulatory reforms to boost Kenya’s manufacturing competitiveness
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 09, 2025

KAM Chief Executive Tobias Alando noted that the private sector is the country’s second-largest employer of wages, after the government, underscoring...

Henry Tanui appointed new CEO of Hustler Fund
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 03, 2025

The Board said Tanui brings over 24 years of experience in financial services, with expertise spanning Risk Management, MSME Lending, Business Lending...

Finnish court jails Nigerian-born activist Simon Ekpa for six years on terror charges
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 01, 2025

The Päijät-Häme District Court in southern Finland delivered the unanimous ruling, finding that Ekpa attempted to advance the Biafra cause through unl...

Curfew imposed in Mau Narok after deadly clashes in Tipis and Mwisho wa Lami
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 31, 2025

The violence, which continued into Sunday morning, forced the closure of the Nakuru–Narok road after residents blocked it with burning tyres.

CBK begins real-time monitoring of customer financial transactions
Mary Wambui  |  Aug 23, 2025

Through the system, CBK will strengthen its ability to surveil the entire banking sector as transactions occur, covering RTGS, PesaLink, and mobile mo...

NTSA releases list of licensed vehicle body builders and assessors
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 16, 2025

According to NTSA, vehicle body builders must fully adhere to Kenya Standard KS 372:2019, which stipulates that bus bodies should be safe, durable, an...

Historic manuscripts returned to Timbuktu after 13 years in Mali's capital
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 12, 2025

They were saved by local custodians who secretly moved over 27,000 documents out of Timbuktu to protect them from destruction during the militants' si...

French Cabinet reviews bill to speed up artefact returns to Africa
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 05, 2025

The proposed law would make it easier to return artefacts taken through force, theft, or looting between 1815 and 1972, when France controlled many Af...

Payment of pending bills breathes new life into construction, manufacturing sectors
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 05, 2025

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) said the revival of the road construction sector was having a positive effect on manufacturers who had su...

Goods moved within EAC are transfers, not imports or exports - KAM
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Aug 03, 2025

KAM CEO cautioned that the imposition of additional duties on goods by any EAC member state violates Article 10 and Article 15 of the Customs Union Pr...

Ex-Tanzanian minister January Makamba barred from defending seat ahead of key primaries
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 30, 2025

His exclusion follows his July 2024 dismissal from President Samia Suluhu's Cabinet, a move interpreted by analysts as political sidelining.

Two police constables sentenced to 35 years for torturing, killing suspect in 2020
Mary Wambui  |  Jul 29, 2025

The victim, then aged 21, had an altercation with the constables in Mbururu town on October 4, 2020, during which members of the public intervened to...

AU welcomes France’s planned recognition of Palestine as a step towards peace
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 26, 2025

African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf commended French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent declaration, which he said aligns fully...

CBK set to monitor county transactions in real time to curb corruption
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 26, 2025

The GDI platform will enhance oversight of public funds by giving CBK the ability to proactively monitor county account balances and transactions on s...

China backs UN push for two-State solution amid Gaza conflict
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 25, 2025

Speaking in Beijing on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun described Palestine as the “core of Middle East issues” and reiterated China’s...

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