Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya has spent years championing a single East African market, then drafted a budget that taxes one. The Finance Bill proposes a 35 percent excise duty on glass bottles imported from EAC partner states, reversing an exemption granted in 2021 and reopening a question...
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya has spent years championing a single East African market, then drafted a budget that taxes one. The Finance Bill proposes a 35 percent excise duty on glass bottles imported from EAC partner states, reversing an exemption granted in 2021 and reopening a question...
Big Tech Knocks: How Amazon Kuiper and Uber Are Seeking Kenyan Telecom Licences
The companies most associated with disrupting markets must now ask permission to enter Kenya's. Amazon's Kuiper satellite venture and the ride-hailing group Uber, two firms whose brands rest on moving faster than regulators, have both filed formal applications to...
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Africa's two largest economies south of the Sahara trade more in rhetoric about continental integration than in goods with each other. Kenya and South Africa sit at opposite ends of the AfCFTA's promise and, until recently, well short of its potential. A June 2026...
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya’s Finance Bill proposes a 35% excise on EAC glass imports, reversing a 2021 exemption and adding US$7.7m to Tanzania’s Kioo Ltd, sparking a trade row.
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
Kenya’s Commissioner of Customs designated SEZ customs areas under the EAC Customs Management Act, drawing the boundary that makes zone incentives enforceable.
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Kenya–South Africa trade rose to US$650m as Presidents Ruto and Ramaphosa signed six pacts on trade facilitation, standards, TVET and women’s empowerment.
Finance Bill 2026: How Kenya Aims to Raise KSh 3.5 Trillion from a Digital Tax Net
Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 targets KSh 3.533 trillion by taxing digital services, standard-rating EVs, shortening return deadlines and widening withholding.
Price Pressure: How Fuel and Food Pushed Kenyan Inflation to 6.7 Percent
Kenya’s headline inflation rose to 6.7% in May 2026 from 5.6%, driven by transport and food, with non-core at 16% against a contained 3.2% core rate.
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Africa Forward: How Nairobi’s France-Africa Summit Courts an Investment Pipeline
Nairobi’s Africa Forward Summit drew 30 heads of state and 1,500 firms across energy, agriculture and AI to turn France-Africa goodwill into deals.
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.
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