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How Covid-19 has exposed our weak economic links

How Covid-19 has exposed our weak economic links

Friday marks eight weeks since Kenya’s first coronavirus case was officially announced. We’re coming to the end of our sixth week of a national dusk to dawn curfew, and we’ve jus…...

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Laikipia County Partners With Dedan Kimathi University To Make Ventilators

Laikipia County Partners With Dedan Kimathi University To Make Ventilators

A Ventilator being developed by the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in partnership with the County Government of Laikipia could hit the market in the next few days.The two in…...

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Kenya business deals hit 30-month low on Corona

Kenya business deals hit 30-month low on Corona

Kenya’s private sector activity plunged in March to its lowest level since November 2017 as the global coronavirus pandemic hit consumer demand and forced businesses to shed jobs a…...

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Safaricom To Launch Sh20 A Day 4G Smart Phone Package As It Posts Sh71.7bn In Profit

Safaricom To Launch Sh20 A Day 4G Smart Phone Package As It Posts Sh71.7bn In Profit

Safaricom has announced plans to launch a Sh20 a day 4G smartphone package aimed at empowering customers currently on 2G devices to upgrade and enjoy high-speed internet connectivit…...

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Sendy Launches A Home Delivery Solution To Help Flatten The Curve

Sendy Launches A Home Delivery Solution To Help Flatten The Curve

Logistics platform Sendy has launched a home delivery solution in an effort to boost local traders during the Covid-19 pandemic.Dubbed Sendy Go, the platform gives shoppers access t…...

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Visa gives Safaricom the ‘missing link’ for global payments

Visa gives Safaricom the ‘missing link’ for global payments

Visa and Safaricom have agreed a deal which will connect the Kenyan telecom operator’s M-Pesa financial services platform with Visa’s global network of merchants and cards. Under …...

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https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/commodities/Coffee-tea-auctions-ordered-to-go-digital/38

https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/commodities/Coffee-tea-auctions-ordered-to-go-digital/38

The Ministry of Agriculture will not renew the trading licences of the tea and coffee auctions if they fail to permanently migrate trading to an online platform in two months. Agric…...

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Ensuring business keeps running in a period of crisis

Ensuring business keeps running in a period of crisis

The coronavirus situation has slowed down the economy by untold proportions. When all this first unfolded, there was defiance and hope that the situation would quickly resolve. Howe…...

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Cereals board seeks agents to buy beans, rice in food security drive

Cereals board seeks agents to buy beans, rice in food security drive

The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) will start buying rice and beans, beginning with 15,000 bags at the end of this month. In a notice published this week, NCPB said it wi…...

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Cereals board seeks agents to buy beans, rice in food security drive

Cereals board seeks agents to buy beans, rice in food security drive

The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) will start buying rice and beans, beginning with 15,000 bags at the end of this month. In a notice published this week, NCPB said it wi…...

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