FlexPay’s two founders have been arrested over the alleged theft of KES 31.2 million from a retailer. The arrests come amid months of customer complaints over delayed withdrawals and refunds.
Uber has shut down its ride-hailing operations in Nigeria after 12 years, its third African country exit in about a year. The move leaves Bolt and inDrive as the dominant players in the market.
Visa has partnered with Kenya Airways and Absa to launch the Asante Global Card. This is a premium travel-lifestyle credit card targeting professionals, frequent travellers and premium banking customers. Customers earn Asante Rewards Points on their purchases, redeemable across the Kenya Airways network.
Kenya has opened a national call for AI projects, offering selected teams access to compute, technical support, data assistance and ecosystem connections. Applications close September 6.
AI builders, startup founders, developers, climate tech people, and enterprise software teams have plenty to choose from in Nairobi this week. Things get moving on Tuesday with Demo Tuesday, then pick up on Wednesday with Anthropic's Claude build lab before Thursday turns into the busiest day of the week, with events from Antler, OpenAI, Zindua, Ikigai, Cardano, GreenShift, and Odoo.
Bolt and Mombasa County are helping 400 delivery riders get formally licensed through a skills-recognition programme. The initiative aims to improve compliance and safety while giving experienced riders access to formal qualifications.
Kenya has opened applications for a new Kenya Artificial Intelligence Accelerator Programme, seeking artificial intelligence use cases that can improve public service delivery and support the country’s green transition. The programme is targeting public institutions, startups and innovators, as well as universities and research institutions with high-potential AI solutions that have a clear path towards [...] The post Kenya Launches AI Accelerator Programme for Public Service and Green Transitio
Paul Kagame opens the 20th Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali on 31 August, a year after Dakar's US$18.5 billion.
The tweet from Kenya Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is short on details but long on implication: **CEIL Summit 2026** is coming, and the promise is that the room will hold the people who decide whether African research ever leaves the lab. For founders and developers across Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaa
Kenya’s proposed law would force ISPs to meter broadband use and report subscriber meter details to the regulator.
Mobile money featured in 51 of Kenya’s 102 cyber fraud cases reviewed in 2026. The cases reveal how fraudsters are using everyday payment rails across crypto, forex and other schemes.
NoOnes Has Shut Down. East Africa's P2P Crypto Traders Just Lost Their Main Rail
Safaricom's Ziidi Trader now accepts Kenyan passports, military IDs and foreign passports, ending its previous national ID only requirement.
ASUS ROG Targets Kenya’s Growing Gaming and Creator Economy at Otamatsuri 2026
Agentic systems engineering, infrastructure observability, live MVP building, and private venture dealmaking take center stage across Nairobi this week. Midweek opens with enterprise operations in Chiromo before accelerating into a packed Thursday and Friday gauntlet, headlined by simultaneous hackathons, closed-room capital tables, and Socratic Bitcoin seminars. If you architect software, debug production integrations, or pitch early-stage ventures, this is your calendar.
World Bank bans Webmasters. Kenya still has questions about who controls eCitizen.
Over the past five years, startups across logistics, e-commerce, agriculture, fintech, food delivery, clean energy, AI, and auto manufacturing have shut down, entered administration, or abandoned their core businesses.
The African startup ecosystem witnessed several milestones in the first half of 2026. One important milestone is the…
Six Nigerian-founded projects have received a combined $521,700 in funding from round 44 of the Stellar Community Fund…
Kenya’s Communications Authority (CA) is targeting to equip 120,000 people across 19 counties with digital skills over the next three... Source
Kenya’s National Assembly has ordered an investigation into QVSE's local operations
Two recent Kenyan High Court rulings show when a shareholder dispute can justify winding up a company, and when the court will refuse. For founders and investors, the cases offer a useful warning about deadlocks, buyouts and what happens when business partners stop agreeing.
Kenya has built some of Africa’s best infrastructure for moving money, but getting paid from abroad still depends on foreign platforms, banks and compliance systems it does not control. Recent disruptions show how fragile those routes can be, even as Kenya becomes an increasingly global place to work.
Kenya Has the World’s Highest AI Usage Rate, Despite Low Internet Access
Kenya’s VASP rules have moved the industry from uncertainty to implementation.This past weekend, builders, lawyers and policy experts came together to explore what comes next.
Airtel Africa has switched on what it says is Africa’s first commercial direct-to-phone satellite service, with Elon Musk's Starlink.
Africa is building regional payment systems that could make cross-border money transfers faster and cheaper, but its fragmented currencies remain a problem that payment rails alone cannot solve.
Uber is investing in drone delivery company Zipline to bring autonomous food deliveries to Uber Eats. Zipline Is Going From Delivering Blood in Rwanda to Delivering Uber Eats
Nairobi’s tech calendar is packed this week, with meetups, workshops and conferences covering AI, blockchain, frontend, mobile and more. Here’s your guide to the events worth checking out from August 20–22.
An internet shutdown isn't a switch a president flips. It's a set of technical instructions handed to a small number of licensed ISPs, and the methods that produce it range from a total blackout to a slowdown so severe your apps stop working while officials insist nothing happened. Zambia's election is today's live test of exactly that gap.