KEBS is one of the Agencies in the Multi-Agency Team constituted under the President's Office to fight illicit trade. As currently structured, KEBS has been instrumental in supporting the Multi-Agency Team activities through Standardization, Metrology and Conformity Assessment.
750 young entrepreneurs will get a financial boost to their businesses after emerging winners in the just concluded MbeleNaBiz Business Plan competition organized by the Ministry of ICT Innovation and Youth Affairs under the Kenya Youth Enterprise and Opportunities Project.
Children with hearing and speaking challenges, young girls unable to attend school due to poverty, and youth aspiring to develop their football talents, will be among the beneficiaries of a social impact project supported by LG Electronics to transform lives and communities. The project, dubbed LG Ambassador: Social Impact Challenge was launched today.
Rwandair will begin a three-week trial in April for customers traveling between Kigali and Nairobi. Customers participating in the trial will create a ‘digital passport’ which verifies that their pre-travel COVID-19 test or vaccination meets the requirements of their destination.
The two teams from Shree Cutchi Leva Patel Samaj School (SCLP Samaj School), were feted at the ISO for developing the most creative international standard on autonomous delivery robot - a mobile platform which transports a load from one place to another, without a human driver.
HF Group announced its partnership with Interswitch Group to expand its digital banking services to include International Money Transfer (IMT), which will enable people in the diaspora to remit funds seamlessly into any HF account. The product also provides a simplified channel for customers to make their loan/mortgage payments.
Despite 2020 having been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, Olunga has had an outstanding year, becoming the top scorer for Kashiwa Reysol in his maiden season in the Japanese top-flight league.
The EAC summit's agenda includes consideration of the economic, financial and social consequences Covid-19 on EAC countries, search for an agreement on a coordinated regional response to the pandemic; consideration of applications from DR Congo and Somalia to join EAC, and ratification of AfCTA.
A report launched by UNECA says regional economies proved resilient but not yet out of the woods, still reeling from the effects of Covid 19.
Kenya has made some efforts to address the trade facilitation challenges that limit our export growth. This includes the Single Window System, and the launch of the Integrated National Export Development and Promotion Strategy among others, tentative steps to becoming…