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Joshua Masinde

Joshua Masinde is a journalist based in Nairobi and writes about the socio-economic landscape in East Africa. Follow him @masindej.

A report says that produce and meat in Nairobi are laced with toxins.

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

STUBBORN SUPPLY

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

THE NEWS YOU WANT

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

Travelers going to their rural homes wait inside minibuses as they wait for their belongings to be tied on top of the buses at one of the busy bus stations in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, 03 August 2017. For the past few days most of the bus stops in Nairobi have been busy as most Kenyans residing in the capital continue to flock them, as they travel to their upcountry homes ahead of polls to vote and some leaving the city as a security measure fearing violence might break after the elections. Kenya will hold general elections on 08 August.

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

INVISIBLE BABIES

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

VERY MOBILE MONEY

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 MY COUNTRY TOO

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