Introduction: Powering a New Era of Collaboration On June 5, 2025, Nairobi’s Emara Ole-Sereni will host the first-ever U.S.-Kenya Creative Economy Forum, a groundbreaking assembly designed to fast-track strategic partnerships, investment, and innovation across Kenya’s fast-growing creative industries. Co-organized by the U.S. Embassy in Kenya and the American Chamber of Commerce Kenya (AmCham Kenya), the […]

Key Highlights A USD 100 Million Boost for East African Trade Standard Chartered, a global cross-border bank, and British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, today formalised a USD 100 million trade finance facility to support the trade finance and working-capital requirements of private-sector companies in Kenya and Tanzania (British […]

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has unveiled an ambitious KSh 40 billion (approximately US $270 million) Universal Service Fund (USF) Strategy for 2023–2027, aimed at extending information and communications technology (ICT) services to every corner of the country—urban and rural—by 2027. Director General David Mugonyi officially launched the plan on 20 May during a […]

Introduction As Kenya cements its reputation as East Africa’s digital powerhouse, the Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) has unveiled a hand-picked cohort of 130 bankable technology startups ready to receive funding at the upcoming Connected Africa Summit, scheduled for 26–29 May 2025 at the Diamonds Leisure Beach & Golf Resort in Diani (Ouut, Connected […]