Author: David Indeje

Anyone can start a relationship well. We show up early for dates, reply to texts within minutes, and offer the best version of ourselves. Ending a relationship tests something deeper. How you leave someone says as much about you as how you arrived. Ghosting, picking fights to force a breakup, or fading out until the other person gets the message all cause damage that lingers long after the relationship ends. The person left behind starts to doubt their worth. They carry that doubt into whatever comes next. And you carry something too: the quiet weight of having chosen the easy…

Kenya’s shopping centres are finding new tenants in unlikely places. As shoppers pull back on discretionary spending, pharmacies, car dealerships and family entertainment venues are stepping in to fill the gap left by struggling department stores and fashion retailers. That is the picture painted by Knight Frank’s H1 2026 Kenya Market Update, which tracks a market under pressure from public demonstrations, rising prices and a weaker consumer wallet. Developers are responding by moving away from big regional malls and building smaller, neighbourhood focused centres instead. Petrol station complexes, redeveloped city centre buildings and community malls are now attracting a wider…

Kenya is building a digital record for its livestock. The Animal Identification and Traceability System, known as ANITRAC, will follow an animal from birth through vaccination, ownership changes, movement and eventual slaughter. The goal is to turn a largely informal meat trade into a system that regulators, buyers and processors can actually verify, and that can compete for higher paying export markets. What to know ANITRAC assigns every registered animal a unique digital identity, replacing paper records, memory and declarations made at the slaughterhouse door. Kenya produced 613,627 tonnes of meat worth about KSh397 billion in 2024, according to Agriculture…

Kenya’s informal trade with its neighbours slipped into a deficit for the first time in the two survey cycles, as weaker agricultural harvests curbed both exports and cross-border market activity, new government data shows. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) reports that the total volume of unrecorded trade at thirteen border points shared with Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Somalia fell 16.7 percent, from Ksh 299 million in December 2024 to Ksh 249.1 million in June 2025. The figures cover two separate 14 day survey windows, one in each reference month, rather than a full calendar year. The 2025 Informal…

I did not have a name for it at the time. I just knew that I had gotten very good at reading her mood before she even said a word: the tone of a “hey,” the length of a pause before she replied, whether “let’s talk later” meant later that night or three days from now. I told myself this was just how she was. Busy. Private. Not big on constant communication. What I did not let myself say out loud, for a long time, was that I had quietly become a detective in my own relationship. Looking back, I…

Rosemary Kimwatu Koech, Head of Data Protection at KCB Bank Group, died at her home in Ngong on Friday morning. She was a familiar name across Kenya’s technology, fintech, legal and data protection circles, and her death has left those communities reeling. Her family has not released a cause of death, and the circumstances remain undisclosed. A Career Built at the Crossroads of Law and Technology Koech spent nearly two decades moving between law, public policy, technology and finance, and her focus sharpened over time on a single question: how should organisations collect, use and protect personal data. That question…