PAYE Relief: How Ruto’s Tax Plan Targets Kenya’s Lowest-Paid Workers
A tax cut is usually presented as a gift to those who pay the most. The proposal President William Ruto put forward on 29 May 2026 is aimed at the opposite end of the scale — the workers who pay the least and feel the squeeze the most. He proposed exempting employees...
PAYE Relief: How Ruto’s Tax Plan Targets Kenya’s Lowest-Paid Workers
A tax cut is usually presented as a gift to those who pay the most. The proposal President William Ruto put forward on 29 May 2026 is aimed at the opposite end of the scale — the workers who pay the least and feel the squeeze the most. He proposed exempting employees...
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
Consumers - Technology & AI · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Africa is getting Chinese satellite imagery faster than it is getting the institution meant to govern it. According to China's foreign ministry's June 2025...
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
Consumers - Technology & AI · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is, on paper, a continental opportunity: road-fleet management, railway control, precision agriculture, land survey, search...
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
Consumers - Technology & AI · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 After two decades defined by roads, rail and ports, China's stated African priority is shifting to bits. At the 2024 FOCAC Beijing summit, the digital economy was cast...
PAYE Relief: How Ruto’s Tax Plan Targets Kenya’s Lowest-Paid Workers
President Ruto’s 29 May 2026 plan would exempt Kenyans earning KSh 30,000 or less from PAYE, cushioning low-paid workers. The relief and its fiscal trade-off.
Border Bottlenecks: How Freight Costs Lock Kenyan SMEs Out of the Continental Market
A KAM assessment finds high freight costs and slow clearance, not tariffs, lock Kenyan SMEs out of AfCFTA markets. What operators and policymakers should do.
Red-Tape Reset: How Manufacturers Are Pushing Kinyanjui for an Industrial Policy Overhaul
Kenya’s manufacturers used KAM’s Regulatory Audit Report to push CS Lee Kinyanjui for an industrial-policy reset to cut compliance costs and levies.
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Chinese industrial zones are cast as engines of Africa’s export ambitions, but the recorded jobs and investment are modest, and the zones matter more as a template than a triumph.
Industrial parks: Value-chain infrastructure, or just serviced land
Industrial parks are sold as value-chain infrastructure, but a fenced plot with power and a road is only real estate until firms cluster and a supply chain forms inside it.
Trade fairs as pipelines: turning expo handshakes into SME orders
A four-day expo can announce billions in deals. The harder question is how many of those handshakes survive contact with shipping schedules, payment terms and a small firm’s first export.
Made in Africa, sold to China: why zero tariffs are only the doorway
China has thrown the door open to African goods. Walking through it with finished products, rather than raw ore, is the harder task that no tariff schedule can do for the continent.
China’s vanishing factory jobs: Africa’s chance, if it can catch them
The World Bank has floated 85 million manufacturing jobs leaving China as wages rise. Whether Africa captures a meaningful share is a question of readiness, not destiny.
Diamniadio: Senegal’s bet that a Chinese garment line can build an industry
Senegal spent about US$44m on a park outside Dakar and pinned 23,000 jobs on it. The first anchor tenant is a Chinese factory sewing T-shirts for the American market.
Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
A Chinese shoe firm exporting Ethiopian-made footwear to the US and Europe is the model linkage story – and the clearest evidence of how hard local sourcing actually is.
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Ethiopia’s drive to become Africa’s top manufacturer leans on private, often Chinese-owned zones. They have delivered factories and exports – and a dependence on foreign developers to build them.
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
A Chinese-built park 35km from Addis Ababa was meant to seed 20,000 local jobs. By late 2017 it had created roughly 10,000 – a real number, and a measure of the distance left to travel.
Power as Productivity: Why Africa’s Energy Gap Is a Jobs Problem First
Energy access is usually counted in households connected. The sharper measure is what unreliable power does to the firms and workers who already have a line.
Green Triad: How Hydropower, Wind and Solar Anchor a New China-Africa Bargain
Beijing frames its African energy work as a single green transition. The record shows three very different technologies, doing very different jobs, in very different places.
Early-Warning Systems: Two Islands, One Test of Resilience Infrastructure
Climate early-warning systems for Seychelles and Madagascar are the quiet end of the green portfolio. Modest in scale, they may be the most directly protective of lives – if they reach beyond two
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