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The United States has pledged to help Kenya build factories and secondary industries around the rare earth element and niobium deposits at Mrima Hill on the southern coast. This is…
The recent visit by Frederick Tatin, Senior Vice President for Africa Lines at CMA CGM, to the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) headquarters was far more than a diplomatic courtesy. It…
The convening of the inaugural Africa Capital Week 2026 in Nairobi under the theme, “Deepening Capital Markets to Advance Africa’s Economic Sovereignty,” could not be more opportune. As policymakers, regulators,…
On Monday, the Port of Mombasa did something deceptively simple and quietly consequential: it set a new internal benchmark for container discharge. A coordinated team of vessel planners, crane operators,…
In the fraught history of Africa’s engagement with global financial institutions, few episodes crystallize the prevailing contradictions as sharply as the recent tension between the World Bank and Aliko Dangote’s…
Kenya’s maritime sector is at a defining moment. The new Cabotage Regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap 389) have finally given legal teeth to the principle that our waters—from…
The scene is classic State House theatre: the polished mahogany desk bearing the Kenyan coat of arms, the national flag standing sentinel, and officials in crisp suits bent over documents…
Seven of the world’s most efficient container ports are Chinese—and six of the ten largest by throughput typically are as well. This dominance is not destiny or sheer scale alone,…
Kenya’s maritime sector has long languished as a peripheral afterthought in national economic planning—something that happens in Mombasa while the real action unfolds in Nairobi’s boardrooms and industrial parks. That…
Today at State House Nairobi, President William Samoei Ruto presides over the formalisation of a landmark trilateral cooperation agreement between the County Government of Mombasa, Mombasa Free Zone Limited, and…