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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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Kenya’s Tea Production Hits All-time High of 55.7 mn Kilograms in March

Kenya’s Tea Production Hits All-time High of 55.7 mn Kilograms in March

Tea productionfor the month of March 2020 in Kenya reached an all-time high of 55.7 million kilograms against 26.5 million kilos recorded during a similar month last year.“Higher p…...

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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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Corona virus is triggering deep digital change in African fintech

Corona virus is triggering deep digital change in African fintech

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global economy.This crisis has become the single biggest catalyst for a digital transformation.For organisations and bu…...

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Airtel Donates PPE worth Sh30mn to support COVID-19 Health Workers

Airtel Donates PPE worth Sh30mn to support COVID-19 Health Workers

Airtel Managing Director P D Sarma in a statement said that this is aperiod where the private sector should join hands to support the government in fighting the virus which has affe…...

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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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Kenya launches the Great Covid-19 innovation challenge

Kenya launches the Great Covid-19 innovation challenge

Konza Technopolis has convened multiple stakeholders to co-create technology-based solutions, by harnessing the creativity and innovative capabilities of Kenyans and Africans toward…...

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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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