Author: Muindi

Kenya Airways has restored its Boeing 777-300ER to commercial service, deploying the 400 seat widebody on the Nairobi to London Heathrow route starting July 17, 2026. The aircraft nearly doubles the seat count of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner it partly replaces, and it marks the return of the largest passenger jet the airline has ever flown. Today, we marked the inaugural B777-300ER flight to London, bringing together government leaders, industry partners, our customers, and the Kenya Airways family to celebrate a new chapter in our journey. As the aircraft departed for London, it carried with it our commitment to… pic.twitter.com/as0e25H76r…

Kenya’s retirement benefits industry grew its investment assets by 26.6% in 2025, reaching KES 2.72 trillion, up from KES 2.15 trillion the year before. Surprisingly, pension funds continuing to lean heavily on government paper even as equities staged a strong comeback. Government Securities Still Anchor the Portfolio Kenya Government Securities remained the industry’s dominant holding, growing 28.3% to KES 1.39 trillion and accounting for 50.98% of total assets. That’s more than half of every shilling Kenyan pension schemes have invested, a reminder that fund managers still treat government debt as their safest long term bet, especially with yields staying attractive…

Kenya’s draft 2025 Code of Corporate Governance does not stop at asking companies to report on sustainability. It builds a path toward having that data checked by someone outside the company, the same way financial statements already are. Sustainability Risk Joins the Main Risk Register The Code requires boards to fold sustainability risk, including climate transition and physical climate risk, into the same risk taxonomy, registers, and controls the company already uses for financial and operational risk. This is not a side list. It sits inside the enterprise risk management system and flows into the annual report through the same…

Administrators have started marketing the assets of Koko Networks, the clean‑cooking startup founded in 2013, marking the first major step toward winding down the company after its collapse in January. Koko filed for administration on the brink of bankruptcy on February 1 after Kenyan authorities refused it a Letter of Approval to sell carbon credits in the lucrative compliance markets, the foundation of the startup’s business model. The sale advances Koko’s insolvency process after the company shut down operations and laid off more than 700 employees when the Kenyan government declined to approve the authorisation needed to unlock carbon credit…

Uber Technologies has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero SE in a deal valued at 14.8 billion dollars, extending its global delivery footprint into 50 markets that include Glovo Kenya. The agreement, announced in Berlin on July 16, 2026, brings together Uber’s mobility network with Delivery Hero’s collection of local delivery brands, among them foodpanda, talabat, HungerStation and PedidosYa. Under the terms of the deal, Uber will pay Delivery Hero shareholders 41.50 euros per share in cash, valuing the company at a fully diluted equity figure of 13 billion euros. That price sits roughly 127 percent above Delivery Hero’s unaffected three…

Kenya’s commercial property investors are changing where they put their money. Rather than chase new developments, they now look at old office buildings and ask what it takes to fix them. Environmental, social, and governance factors sit behind that shift, according to Knight Frank Kenya’s Wealth and Investment Trends Report 2026. Upgrade, Don’t Replace The strategy centres on improving what already stands: better energy systems, renewable power integration, and upgrades that cut a building’s footprint. The report found that 38 percent of respondents said their clients now target underperforming commercial properties for refurbishment while keeping the building’s existing use. That…