A study found the planned 243-km Mau Summit–Malaba highway technically viable within the existing road reserve; a full feasibility study will now set costs, traffic and tolls.
The Nairobi-based lender’s 12-day trip, from 13 to 24 October, is open to commercial and SME banking customers in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda for the first time. Kenya’s imports from China far outstrip its exports to China.
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.
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.
The Registrar struck off 176 more firms in September, part of a year of mass deregistration, as a Central Bank survey found 77% of employers plan no new hires.
China scrapped tariffs on Kenyan exports on 1 May 2026, but Kenya's camel-milk sector still lacks the China market-access approvals needed to fill the demand it has publicised.
