Author: Lorine Otamo

KCB Bank Kenya has joined RUBiS Energy Kenya and the Kenya Tourism Board to launch Kenya Beyond Sight, a campaign that sends six content creators through the country’s eastern and coastal regions on a journey designed around touch, sound and taste rather than sight alone. The five day trip is meant to push the tourism industry to think past postcard imagery and consider travellers who experience destinations differently, including people with visual impairments. Six creators are taking part: J Supercharge, Denno Music, Sammy Brayo, Nancy Cosy, Chelah Richards and Delvin Obara. Why the three partners got involved Each partner is…

Absa Bank Kenya has confirmed Yusuf Omari as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect, ending a leadership transition that began three months ago. The board announced the appointment after Omari cleared all required regulatory and internal approvals, moving him from interim to substantive head of the bank. He had held the interim post since July 1, 2026, when the board turned to him following Absa Bank Kenya’s confirmation of Abdi Mohamed’s move to I&M Bank Kenya, closing a three year run that saw the bank’s share price double and its cost to income ratio tighten from 41…

Naomi Kinyanjui-Munene has joined the William Davidson Institute as Program Manager for Energy and E-Mobility, effective September 2026. Based in Nairobi, she will manage clean energy and e-mobility projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, covering business development, partner engagement, market research and program delivery. She arrives with a decade of work in clean energy, infrastructure, climate finance, investment facilitation, policy advisory and public private partnerships across the continent, experience built through roles spanning government, civil society and legal practice. Seven Years Inside the British High Commission Before joining WDI, Kinyanjui Munene spent close to eight years at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development…

Jubilee Life Insurance has appointed Donald Omengo, CPA(K), as its Chief Finance Officer, effective August 17, 2026. He joins the insurer from KPMG, where he spent more than 15 years building a career in audit, finance, governance and risk management across East Africa and international markets. Omengo moves to Jubilee Life from KPMG’s Audit Practice for East Africa, where he served as Associate Director. His appointment gives Jubilee Life a finance chief with deep grounding in technical accounting and regulatory compliance, skills the insurer says will support its next stage of growth. From Audit Floor to Finance Chief Omengo built…

SMEP Microfinance Bank PLC has appointed Bernard Mutinda Kivava as its Chief Executive Officer, effective May 18, 2026. The Central Bank of Kenya approved the appointment, clearing the way for Kivava to take charge of the church founded lender as it works to grow its balance sheet and deepen access to credit for small traders and farmers. Kivava spent more than two decades in microfinance before joining SMEP. He built his reputation on turning struggling lenders around and expanding their reach into underserved communities across Kenya and the wider East African region. A Track Record of Turnarounds Before SMEP, Kivava…

Kenya’s nurses have called off a 43-day strike after the Kenya National Union of Nurses and Midwives (KNUNM) signed a Return to Work Formula with the Council of Governors, ending a standoff that had disrupted services in public hospitals nationwide. Council of Governors Chairperson Ahmed Abdullahi announced the agreement at a press briefing on Wednesday, September 9, following talks between the COG and the union. “We know nurses have been on strike for 43 days. It was because of the non implementation of the 2017 CBA. We now have a RTWF,” Abdullahi said. The Kenya National Union of Nurses and…