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David Indeje
David Indeje is the Community Engagement Editor at Khusoko, East Africa’s leading digital business news platform. He shapes editorial content, drives audience engagement, and amplifies diverse voices. Beyond journalism, he consults on digital strategy across agriculture, governance, technology, and health, while examining AI’s role in the future of media. He also serves as Communications Officer at KICTANet, advancing digital inclusion and policy dialogue.
The highest reading for three months. Kenya’s service sector activity continued to expand in January on the back of new work even as employment declined further and exports contracted, a private survey showed Wednesday. The monthly Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) by Stanbic Bank, the sector grew 53.2 during the month under review, up from 51.4 in December. A reading above 50 on the index shows expansion and below it indicates contraction. The index pointed to a solid improvement in the health of the private sector economy and the seventh consecutive month of growth since the COVID-19 outbreak. Kuria Kamau, fixed…
CBK Raises Ksh 32.1Bn from Re-opened Treasury Bonds Sale, Off Target The Central Bank of Kenya on Wednesday raised Ksh 32.1 billion from selling the re-opened fifteen-year (FXD1/2013/15) and twenty-year (FXD1/2012/20) Treasury Bonds at a coupon of 11.250% and 12.000% respectively. The target was Ksh 50 billion. Market analysts had expected demand for the papers to exceed the target due to the improved liquidity and continued search for yield by the risk-averse investing public. https://twitter.com/CBKKenya/status/1356945044662591488?s=20 However, Genghis Capital said it was ‘less upbeat of a positive subscription in this week’s auction’. According to Genghis, the January infrastructure bond issuance played…
Kenyan citizens are being invited by Parliament to submit their memoranda on the concluded Trade Agreement with the United Kingdom. In a public notice issued on Wednesday, National Assembly Clerk Micheal Sialai subjected the economic partnership agreement (EPA) to public participation ahead of its consideration by the House. The matter has been committed to the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperative is expected to anchor the new trade pact into law. The trade pact was concluded in December last year after the end of UK’s transition period from the European Union (EU) on December 31. The UK is among…
Kileleshwa and Kilimani accounted for 45% of all properties on sale in Nairobi subburbs Home prices in Nairobi’s suburbs remained flat in q4 of 2020 at 1.2% with a marginal annual rise of 0.17% according to HassConsult’s property pricing index. The index attributes to a decline in prices for apartments by an average of 1.8% in the last quarter and 4.6% over the year. The Hass Property Index is used to measure the asking price changes of residential housing nationwide throughout Kenya serving as an indicator of trends. According to the index, residential units in Kileleshwa and Kilimani accounted…
Global logistics cryptocurrency, TMX Global coin has been featured as the most upcoming and efficient Blockchain technology by the Briter Bridges. Briter Bridges, a data-driven research company, lists companies that are changing the rules of the game in Africa. TMX Blockchain Logistics uses blockchain technology to enhance cargo logistics business with an objective of reducing costs and increase shipping efficiency. It integrates information about shipments onto a secure platform accessible to shippers, carriers, freight forwarders Barely two weeks after the Pre-ICO launch, the Blockchain technology saw a rise in the African Market. Speaking during the PRE –ICO launch of the…