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Heritage Insurance Kenya Introduces First Telematics Motor Insurance in Kenya

Heritage Insurance Kenya has launched the country’s first telematics motor insurance, labeled Auto Correct motor insurance. According to the Insurance Company, the service makes use of telematics capabilities together with data and analytics to promote safety and improve customer engagement.


The business is powered by telematics technology – a method of capturing and processing driving data. The device collects and transmits driving behaviour relating t.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 7th August 2019

Kenya’s Growing Motorbike Taxi Industry Lifts Backward Economies

 A booming motorbike transport industry in Kenya has lifted economies of various rural and urban centers, with the machines imported mainly from China changing the destiny of many. Across rural Kenya, economies of most of the regions now whirl around the motorbikes.


It is a similar case in many urban areas where motorbikes have helped upgrade 24-hour economy and ease transportation of goods and people. Nahashon Kiarie is a motorbike taxi operator in Kitengela,.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 7th August 2019

UNCTAD And TradeMark East Africa signed A US$3.1 Million Agreement Which Is Focused On Facilitating Trade In The Region

On 4th July, the two organizations signed a US$3.1 million agreement for the second phase of a project focused on accelerating trade in the region.

The first phase of the project was executed between 2016 and 2018 with a budget of $3.4 million.
The first phase of the project saw the construction of four national trade information portals in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, as well as a regional trade portal. 
Burundi’s trade portal is .... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 5th August 2019

Tanzania To Build A Cable Car Service On Mount Kilimanjaro

Tanzania is on a move to build a cable car service on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak and a world heritage site. 

Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa, keeps the town of Moshi, Tanzania, alive with trade and tourism. 
 
The mountain is a source of income for many people here, including porters like 37-year-old Sintia Mwita.
A mother of three, Mwita says the job helps her a lot.
Mwita says, ".... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 5th August 2019

Tanzania Supplies One Million Metric Tonnes Of Maize And Flour To Kenya

Tanzania will supply one million metric tonnes of maize and flour to Kenya in a period of 12 months to bridge a shortfall of corn that has led to soaring prices of food.

 

The Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, Hussein Bashe told the 'Daily News' yesterday Kenyan officials whom he met in Dar es Salaam yesterday had requested to be supplied with one million metric .... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 5th August 2019

Queens Supermarket Opens A New Branch In Keranio,Ethiopia

Queens Supermarket, the retail business under the MIDROC Technology Group, has opened a new branch in Keranio, western Ethiopia, after investing US$2.06 million (59.3 million Br).


The branch, which brings the total number of outlets that Queen operates to eight, is expected to generate US$2.60 million (75 million Br) a year, and create 50 employment opportunities.


&.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 5th August 2019

PLASTICS, PRINTING AND PACKAGING EXPO OPENS AT THE KICC, NAIROBI

The 22nd edition of the PPPEXPO 2019 was inaugurated at KICC, Nairobi in Kenya by Mr. Roy Otieno, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, Government of Kenya. Running from the 1st – 3rd August 2019 for the plastic, printing and packaging industry. The PPPEXPO 2019 brings to Kenya the latest products and developments in the printing and packaging sector made globally across the industry while opening up more opportunities for the multi-use pla.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 2nd August 2019

KENYA INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITION OPEN TODAY AT KICC, NAIROBI

22nd KENYA INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITION AFRICA (KITE), Kenya's premier business event for industry and trade was inaugurated today in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). Opened by Mr. Roy Otieno, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, Government of Kenya, the event will run for 3 days from the 01st to 03rd August 2019. Co-located with the event are the specialized 22nd PPPexpo (Plastics, Printing and Packaging), the 22nd Foodagro (Food and Agricu.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

FOODAGRO KENYA INDUSTRY MEET AT KICC, NAIROBI OPEN TODAY

22nd FOODAGRO AFRICA, Kenya's premier business event for the Food & Agriculture industry was inaugurated today in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) by Mr. Roy Otieno, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives, Government of Kenya. Running for 3 days from the 01st to 03rd August 2019 the event is co-located with the 22nd Kenya International Trade Exhibition (KITE). The 22nd Foodagro Africa 2019 is expected to introduce .... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

Afga Middle East Further Expands its Business Activities in Africa

Afga Middle East has always had its eyes on the lucrative African printing market and it recently installed three printers for two of its Congo-based customers - XL Media Group and Congo Graphics. 

For XL Media, the hybrid printer Jeti Titan HS UV marks Agfa Middle East's 10th installation at its facility. Som John, general manager, Agfa said, “Jeti Titan HS is one of the highest selling printers in our assortment in the last .... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

QATAR PETROLEUM SIGNS AGREEMENT ON THREE KENYAN OFFSHORE BLOCKS

A State-owned company, Qatar Petroleum, of the energy-rich Arab nation, has gained a block of Kenya’s offshore oil and gas exploration fields, adding to a expanding list of global corporations eyeing to exploit huge fuel deposits believed to be underneath the Indian Ocean seabed.

The company said it has signed an agreement with French multinational oil and gas company Total and its Italian associate Eni to take over three offshore exploration blocks in the Lamu Basin.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019

Kenya gets into a Deal for First Ever Oil Development

Kenya has signed a Head of Terms agreement with joint venture partners, Africa Oil, Tullow Oil plc and TOTAL S.A for the very first development of an oil processing facility and a crude oil export pipeline.

The agreement signed by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining on behalf of the government will see the oil majors build a 60,000 – 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) processing facility for oil identified in the country’s northwest and, a crude oil export pipeline .... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 1st August 2019



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