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...
Border Bottlenecks: How Freight Costs Lock Kenyan SMEs Out of the Continental Market
On paper, the African Continental Free Trade Area has opened a market of more than a billion consumers to a manufacturer in Nairobi or Thika. In practice, the journey from a Kenyan factory gate to a buyer in Accra or Kinshasa is so slow and so expensive that many...
Red-Tape Reset: How Manufacturers Are Pushing Kinyanjui for an Industrial Policy Overhaul
Kenya wants to be East Africa's manufacturing hub, yet it asks its manufacturers to spend much of their energy not on making things but on complying with the rules about making things. That contradiction sits at the centre of a push by the Kenya Association of...
Chinese zones: A modest base for Africa’s export story
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Chinese-built industrial zones are often invoked as engines of Africa's export future. The recorded numbers ask for restraint. Their early scale was modest and their...
Numida: A Ugandan Lender Wagers on Relationships in Kenya’s Crowded Credit Market
Kenya does not lack for lenders. It lacks the right ones. That distinction sits at the centre of Numida's formal entry into the country, and it is the argument its Chief Operating Officer, Lorraine Mutambiranwa, has come to Nairobi to make. The Ugandan fintech...
Trade finance: the quiet plumbing behind Africa’s exports to China
Tariffs and protocols open the market, but a shipment only sails when someone finances it. The credit, insurance and bonds behind African exports rarely make headlines, yet they decide who can trade.
CADFund: The state vehicle quietly underwriting China’s Africa investments
A China Development Bank fund built to coax Chinese firms into Africa has committed roughly US$7.6bn across 39 countries. Its job is less to spend than to make others spend.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
Green Industrial Chains: A US$700 Million Fund Bets on Africa Keeping the Value
A China-Africa Green Industrial Chain fund of about RMB 5 billion, with seven early projects approved, signals a next-phase pitch: not just power, but the supply chains around it – and the value they
Clean-Energy Contracting: RMB 21 Billion in Revenue, and a Question of Whose
China reports RMB 21.18 billion in contracted clean-energy project revenue since the Beijing Summit. The figure is real – the open question is how much of that contracting value lands in African
Uganda Airlines Boeing order in Uganda — customer adoption the risks and opportunities
Follow the capital, not the metal: how Uganda Airlines’ ten-aircraft Boeing order is financed decides its currency risk, bankability and who pays.
DRC IMF and Eurobond reset in DRC — market impact the business case across East Africa
As the IMF backs resilient growth and the DRC’s first Eurobond, a look at funding structure, currency risk and whether Congolese firms can enter the stack.
DRC IMF and Eurobond reset in DRC — regional opportunity what comes next for investors
The DRC’s first Eurobond, welcomed by the IMF alongside resilient growth, widens financing options for infrastructure and reprices frontier African debt.
$2.33bn SGR financing in Tanzania — regional opportunity what comes next for investors
Tanzania’s $2.33bn SGR syndicated facility sketches a repeatable financing template and points regional investors to the corridor’s buyable adjacent businesses.
$2.33bn SGR financing in Tanzania — market impact the business case across East Africa
Standard Chartered’s $2.33bn syndicated facility for Tanzania’s SGR shows how East Africa assembles global capital, and where local firms can enter the stack.
Nimule e-permit reset in South Sudan — capital structure what comes next for investors
South Sudan’s Nimule e-permit reform re-dates working capital along the corridor, turning a border delay into a balance-sheet event and a lending opportunity.
Rwanda FinTech Centre in Rwanda — regional opportunity the business case for investors
Rwanda’s FinTech Centre pitches Kigali as a regional gateway. For investors, the return case is position not population — model the Frw-to-US$ exposure first.
Rwanda FinTech Centre in Rwanda — market impact the business case for African business
Rwanda’s FinTech Centre and Innovate Rwanda platform coordinate capital for Kigali fintech founders. Who funds, who carries risk, who enters the stack.
Building and industry reset in Kenya — capital structure what comes next for investors
Kenya’s building-code enforcement and lighter manufacturing licensing reshape risk and returns. Fikiria on bankability, cost of capital and who finances it.
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