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NCBA Group now expects Kenya's economy to grow 4.8 per cent in 2026, down from 5.1 per cent. The lender cited global shocks, fiscal strain and the coming election, and expects a recovery in 2027.
BP chief executive Meg O'Neill said the oil major will stay focused on oil and gas and leave solar power to specialists. Her comments follow a third quarter in which BP's profits nearly quadrupled on high oil and gas prices.
Kenya's domestic sugar output fell to 7.04 in 2025 from a peak of 9.33 in 2024, according to KNBS figures published by The Star. The 24.5 per cent drop reverses the previous year's strong gains.
The US announced on Monday that it plans to end duty-free Agoa access for South Africa and Rwanda from January 2027. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the two countries no longer meet the programme's conditions.
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa told CNN that M-Pesa will let users pay, save, invest and insure in one place. Safaricom's financial services business earned KSh 182.7 billion in the year to March 2026, up 13.4%, TechMoran reported.
The Hunger Project-Uganda ran a two-day boot camp in Gulu City for young people aged 18 to 35. It urged them to process, package and market cassava, maize and sorghum, and some youth groups received seed capital.
Tanzanian Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has told embassy staff in Moscow to find new markets in Russian cities for the country's surplus farm produce. He spoke during the Third Russia-Africa Summit, which drew 48 African countries.
Only 700 of an expected 14,000 metric tonnes of raw macadamia nuts were exported before the window closed on October 10, The Star reports. More than 30,000 tonnes reportedly remain unsold, and growers want the deadline extended.
Kenya Pipeline Company plans to move into fuel trading, storage, LPG, LNG, biofuels and power generation to grow revenue. It also proposes a pipeline to Kigali and reported a 13% rise in profit to KSh 11.58 billion.
South Africa faces a hotter, drier summer as one of the most intense El Niño periods takes hold. A record 17.7-million-tonne maize harvest should protect consumers into 2027, Agriculture Envoy Wandile Sihlobo wrote.
US President Donald Trump told Congress on Monday that he plans to end South Africa's AGOA benefits from January 1, 2027. Rwanda received the same notice, and Pretoria says it will keep negotiating with Washington.
Kenya's largest power producer elected Prof John Kipngetich Mosonik as board chairman on Monday, replacing Alfred Agoi Masadia. He takes over as KenGen pushes its G2G 2034 growth strategy, with a new CEO due in February 2027.
Washington said on Monday it would remove South Africa and Rwanda from the African Growth and Opportunity Act from January 1. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer cited trade barriers and threats to US security interests.
KenGen appointed engineer and professor John Kipngetich Mosonik as chairman of its board at a meeting on Monday. He already sits on the board and chairs its Strategy Committee.
Kenya Railways has launched a vehicle-haulage service on the SGR. The first train carried 21 cars from Mombasa Port to the Nairobi ICD in about eight hours, Pulse Live Kenya reports, and the target is 700 vehicles a month.
The Kenya shilling held largely steady on Monday as global volatility hit other regional currencies. Business Today Kenya credits a government-to-government fuel deal and debt restructuring with easing pressure on dollar demand.
Brent crude fell more than 6.5% on Monday to as low as $105.55 a barrel, The Guardian reported. It was the lowest level since October 16, as hopes grew for a US-Iran breakthrough.
KRA Board Chairperson Ndiritu Muriithi has defended a 25% excise duty on phones, charged when they first connect to a Kenyan network. Parliament dropped the idea from the Finance Act 2026, so the current 10% duty still applies.
The Nairobi Securities Exchange has announced changes to two market indices, the NSE Banking Index and the NSE Bond Index. Family Bank joins the Banking Index after completing the required eligibility period.
Crown Paints' Tom Oyier told quantity surveyors in Mombasa that cheap materials leave property owners with repeated repair bills. His warning comes after construction grew 6.8 per cent in 2025, according to KNBS.
Jubilee presidential flagbearer Fred Matiang'i told NTV that the housing levy puts an extra burden on Kenyans. He also wants the tax-free income threshold raised to Sh35,000 so that workers take home more pay.
Agriculture CS Mutahi Kagwe says Kenya wants to raise potato production from three million to six million metric tonnes within three years. The sector already contributes $400 million (KSh 52 billion) to the economy, The Standard reported.
Land in Nairobi's satellite towns averaged KSh 33 million per acre in March 2026, up from KSh 16 million a decade earlier, HassConsult data show. Many buyers spend years building in stages, the Star reports.
Money sent home by Kenyans in Saudi Arabia has fallen by KSh 16.8 billion, Business Today Kenya reports. CBK Governor Kamau Thugge blames Saudi labour reforms that favour skilled foreign workers.
Sub-Saharan Africa's urban population is set to reach 1.7 billion by 2050, a new World Bank report says. Without urgent action on transport, land rules and governance, the lender warns, cities may fail to create the jobs the region needs.
LOOP DFS, NCBA Group's digital financial services arm, launched LOOP BIZ+ in Nairobi on October 29. The platform combines card and mobile money payments, AI stock tools, a marketplace and credit in one service for small businesses.
Pessl Instruments plans to install up to 100,000 weather stations across Africa, starting with 15,000 in Kenya. The UpYield4Africa programme launched in Nairobi on Friday and will give smallholder farmers field-level weather and soil data.
Justice Roselyn Aburili ruled that the Law Society of Kenya went to court before Parliament had finished reviewing the 2023 rules. KRA said the higher fees would partly clear a KSh 4.5 billion debt to its Swiss stamp contractor, SICPA.
The first consignment arrived at the Nairobi Inland Container Depot on Friday. Each wagon carries six cars, and the trip takes about eight hours by rail instead of more than a day by road.
Kenya's sugarcane growers will elect their representatives to the Kenya Sugar Board on November 24, 2026. A notice dated October 30 confirmed the date and said the final voters' register has been published.
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