1. 8 Presidential Aspirants So Far Cleared by IEBC It is now official — Kenyans will have eight names from which to pick their fourth President on March 4.  This follows the clearance Wednesday by the national electoral body of more candidates, including Mr…

With less than a year since its official launch, StarTimes digital television services are available in up to 15 towns across the country. The company on Monday, January 28, 2013 confirmed that its services are up and running in Meru, Embu, Karatina, Nanyuki, Malindi, Kakamega, Webuye, Kitale, Bungoma,…

KCPE candidates record best results of the last five Performance in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam improved significantly last year with more than half of the candidates achieving more than 250 marks. The results released by Education minister Mutula Kilonzo…

With two years to the2015 internationally agreed analogue switch-off deadline, Tanzania is the Only East African country to switch off its analogue television signal. The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) switched off analogue signal transmission in Dar es Salaam on December 31, 2012 at midnight. There…

Miraa (Khat) farmers and traders have a reason to feel relieved now after the United Kingdom Advisory Council on the misuse of drugs rejected requests to ban importation of Miraa in the UK. The UK council found out that there was no evidence that Miraa had any health effects as the Dutch parliamentarians had earlier said.

The poor invest in airtime to grow income, says study Many of Kenya’s poor would rather go hungry and walk to work than be short of airtime, according to a study commissioned by the World Bank. The preference reflects the changes in spending…

Ministry in Push for Mau Mau WarPayout The Kenyan Government is lobbying its British counterpart to compensate former Mau Mau torture victims without taking too much time in court. Justice minister Eugene Wamalwa on Wednesday said that even as the court processes over…

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) is demanding for payment and Kenya seeks payment for its military contribution to the AU mission in Somalia. All this and more on "8 Things You Should Know This Morning".

Cash inflows from abroad have grown 31.4% from USD 891.1 million in 2011 to USD 1.2 billionin the full year of 2012. In the month of December 2012, remittances to Kenya grew by 24% and 8.4% to USD 105.7 million compared to USD 85.2 million and USD 97.5 million recorded in December 2011 and November, 2012 respectively.

Kenya Airways targets increasing its fleet to 119 by 2021; while growing the number of destinations to over 115 from the over 50 that it currently flies to.