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Jiji launches Jiji Academy, a free online academy to drive traffic

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Jiji, Kenya’s online marketplace, has launched a free online course bank dubbed Jiji Academy to help young Kenyans turn business ideas into profitable ventures and drive traffic to its site. The courses on the platform are tailored for side hustlers, aspiring entrepreneurs, and small business owners looking to grow sustainably in today’s fast-evolving digital economy. […]

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Sun King launches phone & TV manufacturing plant with annual production capacity of up to 700,000 units

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Sun King, Kenya’s solar and energy-efficient appliances company, has launched its 7,600-square-metre manufacturing facility with an annual production capacity of up to 700,000 units, reports pan-African tech publication TechMoran. Sun King aims to localise manufacturing, shorten supply chains, and increase local value addition and substitute more than USD $150 million in imports across Africa over

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Kenya and Microsoft in Talks to Boost Digital Transformation Through AI and Cybersecurity

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Kenya is in talks with Microsoft to boost digital transformation, enhance cybersecurity, and strengthen data protection in the public sector. The initiative follows a high-level meeting in Nairobi attended by William Gitau, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy, alongside a senior Microsoft delegation. Talks focused on collaboration in artificial

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Kenya’s Afya Gemma Selected for 2025  Google.org  Accelerator

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Afya Gemma, a Kenyan AI-powered clinical decision support platform developed by Aga Khan University Data Innovation Office has been selected to participate in the 2025 Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI. Afya Gemma will scale its efforts to equip clinicians across Kenya with real-time, evidence-based guidance tailored to local healthcare realities. “We’re honoured to join the 2025 Google.org

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Twiga to Let Go of Over 300 Employees in Great Pivot

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Twiga, the Kenyan agritech and retail distribution company, which has been restructuring and pivoting to profitability, has reportedly let go of over 300 employees to achieve its ‘NewCo’ dream. According to a report by pan-African tech publication TechMoran, “The company intends to declare financial distress, file a manufactured bankruptcy, fire over 300 employees, transfer assets

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TECNO Becomes Official Global Partner of AFCON 2025 and 2027

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TECNO has announced the extension of its partnership with the Confederation of African Football (CAF), becoming the Official Global Partner of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 and TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2027, to be co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. The announcement follows TECNO’s successful involvement as the exclusive

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Power Learn Project & Safaricom Hook Graduate 300 Youth in Digital Talent Initiative

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Power Learn Project Africa (PLP), in collaboration with Safaricom’s youth platform Safaricom Hook, has graduated 300 youth from a nationwide software development program. Launched in October 2024, the PLP x Safaricom Hook Tech Cohort is a fully funded, 16-week immersive digital training initiative that recruited youth from all 47 counties of Kenya to reinforce the

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Mawingu, Microsoft Celebrate Connecting Nearly 100,000 People High-Speed Internet

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Mawingu, Kenya’s internet service provider for rural and peri-urban markets, is celebrating a decade of impactful connectivity, largely due to a partnership with Microsoft that has connected nearly 100,000 people and institutions across 30 counties in Kenya, with recent expansion into Tanzania. Founded in 2012 by a group of entrepreneurs in Nanyuki, Mawingu aimed to

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