East Africa’s family-owned retailers are struggling to adapt to a changing business

As other African countries ban donkey slaughter, Kenya doubles down to meet Chinese demand

Kenya’s newspapers give voters the front pages they want to sell more copies

Nairobi is becoming a ghost town as a tense and tightly-contested election nears

The mounting debt at East Africa’s top supermarket chains is souring a rising middle class narrative

Tanzania’s president is trying to force the media to shut up, listen and be nice

Tanzania is accelerating a mobile phone program to provide more newborns with birth certificates

US State Dept thinks Africa’s leading mobile money platform is vulnerable to money laundering

Kenyan banks have joined forces to launch a mobile money rival to M-Pesa

It’s taken 80 years for this Kenyan community to be recognized as citizens

East Africa’s biggest retailer has sold a 25% stake to an international investor

A made-in-Kenya vehicle is targeting mass production for Africa’s rough terrain

Kenya’s M-Pesa platform is so successful regulators worry it could disrupt the economy

Volkswagen is debuting a ride-sharing service in Rwanda next year

Kenyan banks are closing in on what they think will be the perfect M-Pesa disruptor

Exotic holidays, gifts and the $380 million fraud that brought down a Kenyan bank

Facebook is targeting ad dollars from small businesses in Africa

It’s about to get easier for African innovators to protect their inventions

Africa’s presidents are struggling to meet their own ambitious anti-corruption targets

Kenyan journalists have been dealing with a violent run-up to next year’s elections

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