Central Bank of Kenya Stories
A three-week drop in Murban crude prices and EPRA’s recent restraint on pump hikes point to either steady or slightly lower fuel prices for Kenyans in...
Standard Bank, which trades as Stanbic in Kenya, acted as the sole arranger, lender and facility agent for the deal, while also providing advisory sup...
The African Development Bank has approved an extra $76.37 million for Somalia’s road upgrades, targeting key corridors to Ethiopia and Djibouti to eas...
Accra said it had been "compelled to retaliate", framing the episode as a defence of the dignity of its nationals.
The report urges the government to strengthen governance frameworks, ensure transparency, and tie public funding to measurable outcomes.
KeNHA will partially open the Mombasa–Malindi highway between City Mall and Serena Junction before Christmas to ease festive traffic, as work continue...
At the forum, an additional 15 National Health Compacts, country-led, five-year reform plans that align health and finance institutions behind measura...
WHO and the World Bank report 1.6 billion people pushed deeper into poverty by health costs and 4.6 billion lacking essential services, as Kenya and o...
In Tubas, wide-ranging raids, curfews and bulldozer activity caused extensive damage to homes, roads and water networks, displacing families and cutti...
World Bank Group’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, Indermit Gill, therefore warns that despite the improving glob...
The orders will remain in force as the Tribunal hears and determines Sonko's substantive appeal challenging KRA's tax demands.
Kenya has adopted the WE Finance Code, a global framework to expand credit for women-led businesses, aiming to close gender financing gaps and support...
The core contestation is between commodifying land through individual rights and markets, versus protecting it as a social good through communal right...
World Bank data shows Generative AI skills now attract wage premiums of up to 36 per cent worldwide, as vacancies surge across ICT and white-collar ro...
A World Bank and CAK report warns that 30-year leases of Kenya’s state sugar mills, after major debt write-offs and grants, may entrench dominance and...
OHCHR has verified that Israeli forces and settlers have killed 1,030 Palestinians there, including 233 children, since October 7, 2023.
Shariah-compliant financing is gaining traction, offering not just ethics-based alternatives but increasingly competitive and flexible financial solut...
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said the project places TUM at the centre of Kenya’s long-term plan to grow skills in maritime and coastal d...
Africa’s agribusiness sector embodies the continent’s untapped potential for structural transformation.
According to a statement from the National Treasury, the ITS project is a key component of Kenya’s integrated transport management framework.
In its latest November economic update, the World Bank notes that despite a rapidly growing working-age population, formal employment growth has stagn...
The upward revision follows faster recovery in sectors previously weighed down by tight monetary policy, fiscal consolidation and policy uncertainty t...
The decision has faced scrutiny from some political leaders who raised concerns about transparency. However, the county has directed all Level 4 and 5...
The payments, set to begin in December, aim to support families affected by land acquisition and disruption of livelihoods along the route.
Globally, the analysis shows that the geographic distribution of extreme poverty has undergone a major transformation.
This is only the second recorded contraction in agent cash volumes since CBK started tracking the data in 2007, following a 2.7 per cent decline in th...
As the bank expands its services, it is expected to positively impact the local economy by providing much-needed financial services to individuals and...
Officials reiterated that Israel’s assertion of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and its annexation of parts of it, are in breach of internatio...
Postpartum haemorrhage remains one of the deadliest complications of childbirth, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of women every year. Globally...
The proposed regulations will empower the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) to levy heavier penalties on banks that fail to follow the Banking Act and other...
