Kenya has taken one of the most consequential steps in the history of its climate agenda, officially launching the Kenya National Carbon Registry (KNCR) — a sovereign digital platform that will serve as the authoritative system for registering, tracking, authorising, and reporting all carbon market activities within the country. The launch, held in Nairobi on […]
In a watershed moment for American trade policy, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a sweeping 6-3 rebuke to President Donald Trump on February 20, 2026, ruling that he had exceeded his constitutional authority by using the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping import tariffs on virtually all of America’s trading partners. […]
Nigeria has cemented its position as the largest borrower from the World Bank’s concessional lending arm on the African continent, and the third largest in the world, after fresh data confirmed that the country’s outstanding obligations to the International Development Association (IDA) surged to $18.7 billion as of December 31, 2025. The figure represents a […]
Kenya’s agriculture sector — the engine that directly powers 22.5% of the nation’s GDP, employs more than 40% of its labour force, and feeds over 53 million people — is being asked to operate on a budget allocation that amounts to just 2.7% of national government spending. That is the uncomfortable arithmetic that Agriculture Cabinet […]
When Sanae Takaichi secured Japan’s largest Lower House election victory since World War Two on February 8, 2026, financial markets did not simply celebrate. They calculated. Within hours of her Liberal Democratic Party winning a supermajority of 316 seats, the benchmark Nikkei 225 soared past the 57,000 mark to a record high — and yet […]
On the morning of February 18, 2026, the Nigerian Exchange Limited quietly rewrote the rules of its own market. For the first time in the Exchange’s history, a commercial paper instrument was formally admitted to trading — not over the counter, not through a dealer network, but on the floor of Nigeria’s premier bourse. The […]
Kenya has commissioned one of the largest animal feed manufacturing facilities on the African continent, as the Dutch nutrition giant De Heus Animal Nutrition officially opened its Ksh 3 billion (USD 23 million) plant in Athi River, Machakos County on February 18, 2026 — a milestone that officials say is central to the country’s strategy […]
Global currency markets experienced notable turbulence on Wednesday as three distinct forces converged to reshape investor positioning: reports of an imminent early departure by European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde, the release of closely watched Federal Reserve January meeting minutes, and shifting risk sentiment driven by the progress of Iran-U.S. nuclear negotiations in Geneva. […]
South Africa’s headline consumer inflation edged down to 3.5% year-on-year in January 2026, retreating from December’s 3.6% and landing back at its November 2025 level, according to data released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Wednesday. While the figure came in slightly above the median economist estimate of 3.4% — trimming forward-rate expectations for […]
When Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty landed in Nairobi this week, he did not arrive empty-handed. He carried a written message from President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a proposed $100 million financing mechanism for dam construction, pledges to redirect a chunk of Egypt’s $14 billion African investment portfolio toward Kenya, and a carefully worded diplomatic offensive […]
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