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In Kenya, Safaricom has long been the elephant in the room. It dominates mobile services and has built a near-untouchable fortress around M-Pesa. But step back and look at Africa as a whole, and a different story emerges. Airtel Africa — often underrated as a challenger here in Kenya — is quietly building scale,

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Today marks a milestone I could never have anticipated but in hindsight seems so logical and invetable in that KCB Group announced it is taking a strategic minority stake in PesaPal. As someone who has followed PesaPal’s story since the early days, going back to 2009, and even sat down

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When you think of Kenya’s industrialization agenda, most people immediately picture large-scale factories producing steel, cement, textiles, or consumer goods. However, earlier today, a new chapter quietly began in Kiambu County.  Sun King, one of the the world’s leading off-grid solar energy companies, officially opened its first-ever African manufacturing facility

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