Kenya marks World Tourism Day with digital and AI push to re-design tourism

The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife is packaging and digitising Kenya’s tourism products to make them more accessible to travellers increasingly using digital platforms to discover, plan and book their travel. Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary …

Divisions emerge in UDA as 3 MPs reject coronation of Kithure Kindiki as Mt Kenya kingpin

A section of UDA MPs dismissed Deputy President Kithure Kindiki's coronation as Mt Kenya kingpin, held at Kirigiti Stadium in Kiambu County The lawmakers argued the ceremony was conducted without the full participation of GEMA community elders and …

Kenya’s fintech sector faces an open finance era

When a customer walks into a shop in Kenya, whether they pay through M-Pesa, Airtel Money, a bank app, or another digital wallet determines which payment route they and the merchant use. But a new proposed law could make these distinctions less important …

Vote Smuggling Ring: Border voter claims put Kenya's electoral system under scrutiny

Residents of Kibra constituency in Nairobi turn up for a mass voter registration session at IEBC offices on March 24, 2026. [File, Standard As Kenya inches towards the 2027 General Election, questions over the integrity of the voters’ roll are emerging …

Kenya’s Quakers are using song and dance to keep younger generations in church

Singing, clapping and dancing have become a key feeling in Quaker churches in western Kenya, where worship has evolved well past the silent meetings many associate with the faith. Kenya is home to the world’s largest Quaker community, as churches have …

Kenya and US military test defence of strategic East African base in first full-scale joint drill

The exercise took place on 27 August. US Africa Command’s account, published on 18 September⁠, said it was the first base-wide drill at Manda Bay to bring together US personnel and members from all branches of the Kenya Defence Forces in a fully integrated …

SuperSport to beam AfCON Pamoja 2027 qualifiers and tournament finals itself in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

* African football has an incredible ability to unite audiences across borders, languages and cultures * AfCON represents that spirit at its very best, bringing together the continent’s biggest football nations * Including its most exciting players and …

Kenya has a chance to turn clean cooking into a business opportunity

The defining cybersecurity challenge of the AI era is not intelligence, but autonomy. As African organisations embrace agentic AI, assumptions that have shaped security strategies for decades are beginning to break down. Security teams have traditionally …

8th DAY: Four years of Kenya's education sector reforms

Hellen Avisa Director Junior School Ministry of Education,during the public launch of the 2026 Junior School Education (JSE) and Senior School Survey (SESS) Reports by Usawa agenda,on August 19th 2026 at KICD, Nairobi.[Edward Kiplimo, Standard] The …

Kenya forced to settle for draw in McCarthy’s AFCON qualifying opener