A few years ago in Kenya election monitoring and reporting was a tricky, tiring and often thankless affair. Kenya‘s elections processes over the last decade largely involved sending hordes of polling clerks, election observers and monitors with paper files to far-flung areas to record results. Apart from being slow, unreliable

Well, looks like everyone is now on-board the mobile tariff (war) bandwagon that started last week after Zain dramatically lowered their call and SMS rates. In particular, after that announcement, YU immediately responded as did Safaricom earlier this week. Now, as of yesterday, Orange is the last mobile network to

It was inevitable after Zain and YU lowered their call and SMS rates in Kenya dramatically last week as posted on this blog. Therefore, in a move that is likely to retain Safaricom’s 16+ million subscribers it today launched a new promotional tariff that will see its subscribers call from