A security firm in Nairobi budgeted May and June payroll at the old rates, waiting to see whether President Ruto’s Labour Day announcement would actually become law before changing anything. It was the right instinct and the wrong bet. The Regulation of Wages (General) (Amendment) Order 2026 was gazetted on 26 June, backdated to 1 … Read more
At a Nairobi packhouse in Murang’a, a cold-chain manager checks the temperature log on a crate of Hass avocados bound for a market Kenya has never shipped to directly. For years, “export” meant Rotterdam, Dubai, or, more recently, Shanghai. It never meant Kingston. That changed on July 13, 2026, when Kenya’s first-ever resident High Commissioner, … Read more
A mama mboga at Toi Market in Nairobi sells vegetables all morning, and every sale lands on her Till as a Buy Goods payment, free, the way it is supposed to be. By early afternoon she needs cash to pay her wholesaler, so she walks two stalls down and withdraws KES 8,000 from an M-Pesa … Read more