Kenya Transporters Association Stories

MPs dismiss claims that foreign firms sideline Kenyan transporters
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 07, 2025

This follows concerns raised by local operators over limited access to contracts and alleged preferential treatment for foreign companies.

Developing countries’ debt servicing cost hit 50 year high on high interest
Alfred Onyango  |  Dec 05, 2025

World Bank Group’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, Indermit Gill, therefore warns that despite the improving glob...

Ndindi Nyoro questions government’s decision to sell 15 per cent Safaricom stake
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Dec 05, 2025

Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro has challenged the government’s plan to sell a 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom, alleging undervaluation and lack of open bidding...

Government expands passport services to ease Nyayo House congestion
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Dec 05, 2025

The Interior Ministry plans new passport application centres in Nairobi and several counties to ease Nyayo House congestion, cut travel distances and...

MPs question Sh1 billion unsupported spending, ethnic imbalance at NKPCU
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Dec 05, 2025

Parliament’s investments committee has queried over Sh1 billion in unsupported spending and irregular staffing at NKPCU, demanding documents on coffee...

Full implementation of NADCO report puts UDA–ODM pre-election alliance under pressure
Barack Oduor  |  Dec 04, 2025

UDA and ODM pre-election alliance faces new pressure as NADCO report implementation advances, amid Rigathi Gachagua’s claims of bad faith and analysts...

Malaria: Drug resistance and underfunding threaten progress towards eliminating killer disease
UN News  |  Dec 04, 2025

The WHO’s latest annual update shows impressive progress since 2000: intervention has saved an estimated 14 million lives worldwide over the last quar...

2 per cent of Kenyans own over half of the country’s arable land - KHRC report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 04, 2025

A KHRC report finds less than two per cent of Kenyans control over half of arable land, worsening food insecurity, weakening county revenues and deepe...

CS Kagwe announces policy overhaul for sugar, tea and miraa to protect farmers’ earnings
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 04, 2025

Agriculture CS Mutahi Kagwe detailed 30-year leases for four state sugar mills and wide-ranging tea reforms targeting Sh100 per kilo by 2027, aiming t...

Debt, wages devour 68 per cent of Kenya’s revenue, leaving citizens struggling - KHRC report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 04, 2025

A KHRC report says Kenya now spends 68% of ordinary revenue on debt and wages, breaching legal limits and shrinking funds for health, social protectio...

Global growth set to stall in 2025, UN flags financial and geopolitical risks
XINHUA  |  Dec 03, 2025

UNCTAD forecasts global growth will slow to 2.6 per cent in 2025, citing rising financial volatility and geopolitical risks, with developing economies...

From protesting tyranny to saving lives: How Sudan’s networks are responding to war
The Conversation  |  Dec 03, 2025

These groups, which helped organise mass protests in 2018, have since become a lifeline for communities affected by the civil war that began in 2023.

Kenya exports up to 17 tonnes of miraa daily to Somalia, government confirms
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 03, 2025

The Ministry of Agriculture's estimates show that there are about 110,000 farmers growing khat in 360,940 acres of land, benefiting over 1.4 million p...

EAC and AGRA rally young entrepreneurs to transform regional food systems
Alfred Onyango  |  Dec 03, 2025

East African leaders, investors and youth met in Nairobi to back agrifood innovation, as EAC and AGRA use EAYASE-25 to expand finance, markets and pol...

Federal authorities plan large-scale immigration raids targeting Somali community in Minnesota, US
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Dec 03, 2025

The information has spread quickly through Somali neighbourhoods in both cities, where many residents say they now fear unannounced raids and mistaken...

Human rights groups give IEBC, EACC 14 days to address by-election malpractice
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 03, 2025

Human rights and observer groups have given IEBC and EACC 14 days to act on voter bribery, intimidation and violence in recent by-elections, warning o...

Police detain 54 foreigners in illegal entry, probe human trafficking links
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 03, 2025

Kenyan police detained 54 foreigners at Kibish and Bungoma, including Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis, in suspected human trafficking cases, highlig...

NGEC backs Interior Ministry ban on mediation, informal settlements in SGBV cases
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 03, 2025

Kenya’s Gender Commission has backed the Interior Ministry’s ban on mediating or withdrawing sexual and gender-based violence cases, citing rising def...

Kenya Airports Authority clarifies viral video of SUV convoy at JKIA, cites official state protocol
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Dec 02, 2025

The clip, which has drawn significant attention on social media, sparked speculation about the nature of the convoy and security procedures at the cou...

EU and Africa launch regional maritime security plan to tackle piracy and trafficking
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 02, 2025

The EU, African states and UN agencies are meeting in Nairobi to design a joint maritime security plan for the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean, targe...

Ruto orders sweeping security reforms after Jukwaa la Usalama forums
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 02, 2025

Twenty-four sub-counties, 88 Divisions, 318 Locations, and 675 Sub-Locations will be operationalised in the next one year.

Jukwaa la Usalama report flags corruption, terrorism and gangs as key threats
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 02, 2025

Western Kenya is affected by organised criminal gangs and SGBV. North Eastern continues to grapple with terrorism and land conflicts. Central Kenya fa...

Murkomen warns politicians over hired goons, rising SGBV cases
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Dec 02, 2025

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen has warned politicians over hiring criminal gangs and raised alarm over rising sexual and gender-based violence in West...

Tough decisions stabilised the economy, saved Kenya from shame – Ruto
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 02, 2025

President Ruto says scrapping subsidies and delaying some debt payments were painful but necessary steps to stabilise Kenya’s economy and avoid a sove...

ODPP urges Lamu residents to stop settling SGBV cases informally
Farhiya Hussein  |  Dec 02, 2025

Prosecutors in Lamu have warned residents against settling sexual and gender-based violence cases in village or family forums, saying the practice den...

State sugar mill leases risk exposing consumers to higher prices - report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 02, 2025

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...

Government commits Sh27 billion to upgrade TVET institutions nationwide
Lucy Mumbi  |  Dec 02, 2025

Kenya has allocated Sh27 billion to upgrade TVET institutions and Sh2 billion for fast-tracked funding, targeting two million trainees by 2027 and exp...

RwandAir resumes Mombasa flights, launches Kigali–Zanzibar route after six years
Farhiya Hussein  |  Dec 01, 2025

RwandAir has resumed Mombasa flights and launched a Kigali–Zanzibar–Mombasa route after six years, strengthening regional connectivity and supporting...

ODPP recommends public inquest into Daystar student Lonah Kathambi’s death after CCTV reveals fall
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Dec 01, 2025

A Nairobi court has ordered a public inquest into Daystar student Lonah Kathambi’s fatal fall from an 11th-floor Ngara building, after CCTV and toxico...

Sudan army makes major gains in South Kordofan, retakes key villages from SPLM-N
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 02, 2025

The Sudan conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, displaced over 14 million, and driven parts of the country into famine, creating one of the wor...

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