The Kenya Bankers Association says an unchanged rate would protect the recovery in private-sector credit, even as inflation climbed to 6.8% in September, near the top of the official target band.
World Athletics' competition management director toured Kasarani, Nyayo and Ulinzi and met Sports PS Elijah Mwangi, in the first inspection since Kenya won the 2029 hosting rights.
Kenya's Karan Patel has reportedly won a third African Rally Championship after rival Aakif Virani withdrew from the Tanzania finale; the FIA has not yet confirmed it.
Kenya's women's sevens side will defend its title at the 28th Safari Sevens at Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium from 9 to 11 October against five other teams, including Uganda and Tunisia.
Officials report 4,018 deaths and about 8,300 confirmed cases in seven provinces; Uganda's own outbreak was declared over in July, and Kenya's latest published figures show no confirmed case.
Samburu leaders petitioned the National Assembly's Security Committee, Citizen Digital reported on 2 October, seeking KSh 70 million for 43 families after a security operation; Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has expressed regret over the livestock losses.
Lecturers in the Universities Academic Staff Union began a strike on 2 October 2026 after talks on a 2025–2029 collective bargaining agreement stalled over funding.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are racing to finish venues for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, which starts on 19 June 2027. Kenya's flagship Talanta stadium was built by China Road and Bridge Corporation, and Kenya's organising chief says Kasarani's pitch should be finished by the end of October.
A 40,000-tonne cargo of petrol and diesel for Rwanda docked at Mombasa on 29 September, the first under a government-to-government fuel framework between Kenya and Rwanda.
Puntland says pirates killed five crew on the MT Honour 25, apparently the first such deaths off Somalia in over a decade, before its forces freed the ship and captured 16 suspects.
Two women trained through a UN Women programme now fix engines and brakes at Kakuma's UNHCR-run motor vehicle workshop, part of a small cohort challenging who gets to be a mechanic in one of Kenya's largest refugee camps.
A restored 19th-century Khoja merchants' guesthouse in Zanzibar's Stone Town is now fully let, housing traders displaced by the Old Fort's ongoing restoration.
