Africa Trades More, Kenya Falls Behind
Across most of the African countries, trade ranges from 2 percent of GDP in Sudan to 206 percent in Djibouti. East Africa's trade hub is one of the few big economies heading down the table.
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Economy
Money and markets — public finance, the cost of living, banking, fintech and trade.
The NSE’s trillion-shilling sprint
The Nairobi bourse has added KSh 2.5 trillion in value in under two years, and each new trillion has arrived sooner than the last. The rally is real. So are the caveats.
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Quickmart to Sell 57% Stake on NSE
Quickmart has quadrupled its profit margin, paid out more than it earned and is betting on a growth rebound.
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Kenya’s banks don’t merge. They get bought.
Three decades of deals show a sector that has swapped marriages for takeovers. Even the bank born of the last merger is now up for sale.
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Every paycheck has three jobs.
One rule splits take-home pay into fixed shares for needs, wants, and the future — the hard part isn't the math.
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The Fare Trap
A minimum fare is supposed to be a rare policy win — better pay for drivers, no losers. Nairobi's commuters don't see it that way.
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The World’s Largest Tea Producers
Tea is the world’s most-consumed drink after water, with global production reaching 7.05 million metric tons in 2024. That was nearly double the amount produced 20 years earlier.
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Africa's Most Remittance-Dependent Economies (2024) 💸
Money sent home by migrants rarely makes front-page economic headlines. Yet for millions of families across Africa, these quiet transfers—often sent in modest.
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🧨 Africa's Debt Trap: When Interest Becomes the Budget - Kenya
Debt has always worn a suit of irony—designed to bring growth, it often ends up choking the very system it sought to elevate. A recent UNCTAD report has put it plainly: Africa's most vulnerable economies are not just paying interest—they're bleeding revenue into it.
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Bread, Borrowed
Kenya's wheat fields produced less in 2025 than in any year since 2021. Almost nobody at the bakery noticed — and the numbers explain exactly why.
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