Author: Lynet Awino

Samsung has confirmed the full spec sheet for the Galaxy S26 FE, the newest entry in its Fan Edition line. The device sits between the budget A series and the flagship S26 range, carrying a $700 price for the base 128GB model in the US and 700 US dollars equivalent pricing across most global markets, according to Samsung’s product listing and WIRED’s review of the retail unit. Below is a full rundown of what the Galaxy S26 FE offers, drawn from Samsung’s official specification sheet. Design and Build The Galaxy S26 FE keeps the flagship look from prior generations. It…

Two Kenyan financial institutions moved this week to fund the country’s climate targets, one to restore a forest, the other to rewire university campuses for cleaner power. The Family Group Foundation, the social investment arm of Family Bank, signed a three year partnership with the Kenya Forest Service to build a nursery that can produce one million tree seedlings for the Ngong Hills Forest Ecosystem. Days later, KCB Bank Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding with the country’s public universities to finance solar power, energy efficiency and campus water systems. Different targets, same logic: government restoration and energy goals move…

Land in Kenya carries weight far beyond a title deed. That question anchors Land, Language and the Stranger, an exhibition opening at Goethe Institut Kenya that pairs research with art to examine how land shapes hospitality, ownership, colonisation and labour along gender lines. The show comes from Down River Road, a journal for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and ideas, working with Goethe Institut Kenya. Four contributors, Brian Muraya, Muthoni Mwangi, Kamwangi Njue and Cynthia Nyakiro, built the project alongside Adam Yawe, Antony Muisyo and Kabi Kimari. Months of readings, gatherings and workshops fed into three works, each combining an experiment, an…

Britam Holdings PLC has wiped out Sh5.8 billion in accumulated losses from its parent company books, clearing the last legal barrier standing between shareholders and a dividend payout that has eluded them for six years. The insurer confirmed in a public announcement that a reduction of its share premium account took effect on September 7, 2026, cutting the account from Sh13.24 billion to Sh7.36 billion. The Sh5.88 billion difference has been applied directly against the company’s accumulated losses, erasing the deficit that Kenya’s Companies Act cites as grounds to block dividend payments. Britam last rewarded shareholders in 2019. Since then,…

Uchumi Supermarkets PLC will meet its creditors and members virtually on Monday, September 21, 2026, at 10am, the latest step in an insolvency process that has run before the High Court of Kenya since 2018. Owen Koimburi, the insolvency practitioner appointed to oversee the case, issued the meeting notice under section 628 of the Insolvency Act No. 18 of 2015, along with Rule 134 and the Third Schedule of the Insolvency Regulations, 2016. The retailer has asked interested parties to register in advance through a link included in the official notice. The meeting sits within Insolvency Petition No. IP 25…

More than half of Kenyans living with metabolic disease do not know they have it. The national caseload will double by 2050. Clinicians meeting in Nairobi on Saturday named this gap the central challenge in Kenya’s response to the disease. The meeting, Convergence: The Metabolic Continuum, Refined by Design, brought together the Kenya Association of Physicians (KAP), the Hospital Pharmacists Association of Kenya (HOPAK), and Getz Pharma. At the forum, Getz Pharma introduced Zepad, its tirzepatide product, into the Kenyan market. The drug requires a prescription and treats obesity, type 2 diabetes, and the conditions that ride alongside them. Patients…