Investments & Projects

Villgro Africa has invested over $1.36 million (Sh171.4 million) in 36 Kenyan healthcare startups over the last seven years, with plans to launch a Biotech Innovation Hub as part of its regional expansion.

In 2014, a group of youth working as boda boda riders in Hamisi, Vihiga County realised that the business was becoming unsustainable.

Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga expressed concern over the high demand for housing in urban centres. “Of the supply of 50,000 units, 49,000 units are for the upper-middle and high-end market while only 1,000 units are available to the lower segment of the housing market...

The High Court has ordered the Ministry of Energy and the sector regulator, Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra), to include a 300 megawatt (MW) wind power plant to its list of approved electricity projects.

A new deep-water port at the Kenyan island of Lamu welcomed its first ships Thursday, launching a potential trade corridor for neighboring countries despite local opposition.

The public participation brought together Project Affected Persons (PAPs), officials of water companies, Kenya Power Company, and other relevant government agencies on land acquisition and project implementation from Sagana to Marua in the dualling of the 84km Kenol-Marua road.

Tatu City’s owner and developer, Rendeavour, will collaborate with Konza Technopolis to attract investors to Kenya, Rendeavour’s Executive Vice President Preston Mendenhall, and KoTDA’s CEO Eng John Tanui have jointly announced.

Listening to Sakina Hassanali (pictured), the head of development consulting and research at HassConsult talk about real estate quarterly indexes can be mind boggling to the uninitiated.

A hearing of an existing dispute in which London Distillers Kenya Limited (LDK) is challenging the construction of a multi-billion-shilling housing project in Athi River is ongoing at the Environment Tribunal after court overruled applications for adjournment.