Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
Betting giant SportPesa has quietly ceded ownership following a recent transaction that has altered the ownership structure of Milestone Games Limited, the Kenyan holding company that operates the SportPesa brand. At the center of the…
Kenya is positioning itself at the center of a new kind of partnership between governments and frontier artificial intelligence companies, one that moves beyond pilot projects toward a coordinated national effort. This strategic direction…
Twelve Kenyan startups have been selected for Cohort 4 of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, launched in Nairobi on July 23, 2026. The program, run by iHub, is shifting how it picks companies. Where the first three cohorts backed…
Google has introduced a new way to get into your account: recording a short selfie video of yourself. The feature joins passwords, passkeys, and recovery contacts as another option for proving you are who you say you are, and it reflects a…
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have today raided two premises in Kajiado County alleged to be hubs for the production of explicit content. In the first operation, the police raided a house in the Rimpa…
The Mastercard Foundation has unveiled the Africa Higher Education for Transformation (AHEFT) Prize, a new initiative backed by a $500 million commitment over the next decade to recognize African universities delivering lasting…
For years, drivers on apps like Uber and Bolt have complained about the same thing: fares keep dropping, commissions stay high, and there is little they can do about it. The apps set the rules through algorithms, and drivers either accept…
Samsung has opened pre-orders in Kenya for its newest foldable phones: the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Flip8. All three run on a new version of Samsung’s software, One UI 9, which brings changes aimed less at flashy…
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has announced two developments that push Kenya’s criminal justice system closer to global standards. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) received an ANSI National Accreditation…
TikTok removed 884,591 videos in Kenya during the first quarter of 2026 for breaching its Community Guidelines. That’s what the platform said in its most recent Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. The report shows that 99.7% of the…
TikTok has released its Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for the first quarter of 2026. Between January and March, the platform removed 884,591 videos in Kenya for breaching its Community Guidelines. That is close to 10,000 videos…
M-KOPA has announced it has surpassed 10 million customers across Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as demand for its smartphone financing and digital financial services continues to grow. Its “More than a Phone” platform,…
Kenyans who owe money on their Hustler Fund loans have a new way to clear their debt: Safaricom’s Bonga Points. The Financial Inclusion Fund, better known as the Hustler Fund, has started texting borrowers to let them know they can use…
Kenya’s electronics market is getting a rulebook overhaul, and if you’ve ever bought a phone that broke down two months later with no one to call, this is worth paying attention to. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has rewritten…
Image by pvproductions on Magnific There is a cost to a bloated web page that rarely appears in any analytics dashboard. Every unnecessary megabyte a site sends is a megabyte somebody paid for, and in a market where most people reach the…
For most Kenyan small businesses, the internet starts with a WhatsApp Business account or an Instagram page. Sales get tracked in a notebook or a chat thread, invoices go out only when someone remembers to write one, and customer records…
A year ago, many of Kenya’s fastest-growing artists barely registered in Spotify’s streaming data among listeners aged 18–24. Today, several are recording hundreds of thousands of monthly streams, while some of the country’s most…
By Larry Cooke, Binance Africa Every few years, a technology the world considered finished gets reinvented somewhere unexpected, and the place that reinvents it stops being a follower and becomes the source. For digital infrastructure,…
China has positioned itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence, integrating smart technologies into nearly every aspect of daily life. From automated services to robotics, the country’s rapid adoption of AI is driving an…
By Stella Mambo, Director Global Markets Absa Bank Kenya Africa’s innovation story has often been framed by scarcity, from limited funding and infrastructure to constrained access to capital. Yet these challenges have repeatedly sparked…
Sending money from one bank to another in Kenya is about to get a lot cheaper for a lot more people. The number of banks and microfinance institutions offering discounted PesaLink fees has grown to 19, nearly double the count from just two…
President William Ruto has promised full government funding for every Kenyan student who passes their exams and earns a university or college placement, regardless of household income. The president also added that paying anything on top…
Alessia Mia Teresa Russo is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Arsenal in the Women’s Super League and the England national team. Born on February 8, 1999, in Maidstone, Kent, she has established herself as one…
Ceri Holland is a Welsh professional footballer born on December 12, 1997, in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. She plays as a midfielder for Liverpool in the Women’s Super League and represents the Wales national team. Eligible to play…
