Author: David Indeje

When the whistle blew to open the 2026 FIFA World Cup on June 11, it did more than mark the start of 104 matches across 39 days in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. I n Kenya, it signalled something rarer in pay television: a reversal of strategy by a company that had spent three years pricing itself out of its own market. DStv, now owned by French media conglomerate Canal+ following its KES 280.7 billion acquisition of MultiChoice Africa completed in September 2025, arrived at this World Cup with its back against the wall. The numbers tell a story…

Kenya’s internet story is, at its core, a smartphone story. Everything else is a footnote. The Communications Authority ‘s April 2026 Audience Measurement and Industry Trends Report makes that clear from the data up. An overwhelming 98.2% of Kenyan internet users accessed the web via a mobile smartphone in Q3 2025/26. Laptops trailed at 5.8%, Smart TVs at 1.2%, tablets at 0.9%, and desktops at a barely visible 0.6%. Any business, media house, or government agency still designing digital strategy around desktop screens has already lost the plot. The smartphone monopoly The scale of mobile dominance matters because it reframes…

Stanbic Holdings Plc delivered a great year in 2025, embedding sustainability so deeply into its operations that the word “compliance” no longer fits. What emerges from its 2025 Sustainability Report is a portrait of a bank that has moved from reporting on ESG to building its entire business model around it. Trade financing surged to KShs 133 billion, nearly 50% above its KShs 90 billion target. The D.A.D.A women’s platform crossed KShs 49.5 billion in cumulative loans disbursed. Over 200,000 trees were planted in a single year. For the first time, the Board formally adopted IFRS S1 and S2 disclosures,…

Kenyan households received KSh 931.8 billion in remittances between June 2024 and May 2025. According to the 2025 Remittances Household Survey, the first nationwide study of its kind, conducted by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the Central Bank of Kenya and Financial Sector Deepening Kenya. The number tells part of the story. Who sends, who receives, how the money moves, and what families spend it on tells you far more about the state of Kenya’s economy than any figure alone can. The Survey That Changed What We Know For years, Kenya measured remittance inflows through commercial…

Across Africa, people still want news. The problem is they trust it less, encounter it differently, and rely on platforms their parents never heard of. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, released by the University of Oxford and covering nearly 100,000 respondents across 48 markets, paints a picture that should alarm editors, rattle newsroom managers, and compel media investors to reconsider everything. Trust in news fell in 29 of the 48 markets surveyed, reaching its lowest point since the Reuters Institute began tracking the metric in 2015. The global average now sits at 37%, down 3 percentage points in…

The Middle East conflict has moved from a distant geopolitical crisis to a direct drag on Kenya’s balance of payments. Elevated crude prices are swelling the national import bill, disrupting shipping routes and forcing businesses to pay more for fuel, machinery and raw materials, costs that flow straight through to the current account. The Central Bank of Kenya projects the current account deficit will widen to 3.0% of GDP in 2026, up from 2.1% in 2025. That would push the nominal deficit from $3.10 billion to $4.30 billion in a single year. Commercial analysts are less optimistic. NCBA Research warned…