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Employees need rest, but at what cost?
Kenyan and African firms experiment with wellbeing days as part of mental-health strategies, but their benefits remain limited By...
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The price of harm: should Kenyan employers face stiffer fines for unsafe workplaces?
A legal framework exists, but enforcement remains thin and penalties weak By Josephat Njeru When a construction worker falls...
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Clean water, healthy lives
How water and sanitation shape health in East Africa By Philip Mwangangi Somewhere in Turkana County, in Kenya’s arid...
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Healing communities
Kenya’s experiment in digitised, community-led primary care is proving its worth. The harder question is who will pay for...
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Africa’s malaria fight is losing ground, and money
A generation of hard-won progress faces reversal as aid dries up and cases plateau By Our Correspondent ADDIS ABABA...
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Breaking the silence
Kenya’s campaign to dismantle mental health stigma faces formidable structural barriers By Our Staff Writer In January 2025, Kenya’s...
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The pandemic dividend
Africa’s halting progress on disease preparedness exposes the gap between rhetoric and resources By Our Staff Writer In February...
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America’s WHO exit leaves Africa exposed
The withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organisation threatens to undermine disease surveillance and health systems...
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Small doses of daily exercise linked to mortality reduction
Two large-scale studies suggest modest increases in physical activity yield substantial health benefits By Our Reporter The notion that...
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Sick pay
Kenya’s new health insurance scheme promises universal coverage. Can it deliver? By Ethical Business Team When Janet Wanjiru’s husband...
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
Investing in Africa’s fish farms
Capital, Credit and the quest for sustainable aquaculture in Kenya and beyond By Our Staff Writer NAIROBI — Africa’s aquaculture sector is attracting increasing attention from investors and development financiers as demand for fish outstrips both wild catches and domestic supply. Fish consumption is rising across the continent, driven...
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
The true price of your plate
Who really pays? By Philip Mwangangi The price of a bag of maize flour, a bunch of sukuma wiki, or a packet of biscuits at a Nairobi supermarket tells you almost nothing about what producing it actually costs. The numbers on the label reflect wages paid, inputs purchased, and...
Designing for yesterday
Kenya’s newly constituted National Infrastructure Fund has a serious blind spot. Climate risk is not in its founding mandate....
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
Investing in Africa’s fish farms
Capital, Credit and the quest for sustainable aquaculture in Kenya and beyond By Our Staff Writer NAIROBI — Africa’s...
The true price of your plate
Who really pays? By Philip Mwangangi The price of a bag of maize flour, a bunch of sukuma wiki,...
East Africa feels the strain of global fuel shocks
Imported petroleum is driving inflation and testing economic resilience By Ethical Business Team GLOBAL OIL PRICES have surged because...
Investing in Africa’s fish farms
Capital, Credit and the quest for sustainable aquaculture in Kenya and beyond By Our Staff Writer NAIROBI — Africa’s aquaculture sector is attracting increasing attention from investors and development financiers as demand for fish outstrips both wild catches and domestic supply. Fish consumption is rising across the continent, driven...
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
The true price of your plate
Who really pays? By Philip Mwangangi The price of a bag of maize flour, a bunch of sukuma wiki, or a packet of biscuits at a Nairobi supermarket tells you almost nothing about what producing it actually costs. The numbers on the label reflect wages paid, inputs purchased, and...
Walking on waste
Footwear fashioned from discarded tyres signals both ingenuity and the limits of circular fashion in Africa By Charles Omondi In a cramped workshop in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement, strips of rubber peeled from old car tyres lie stacked beside sheets of leather from local tanneries. Sparks fly as...
Investing in Africa’s fish farms
Capital, Credit and the quest for sustainable aquaculture in Kenya and beyond By Our Staff Writer NAIROBI — Africa’s aquaculture sector is attracting increasing attention from investors and development financiers as demand for fish outstrips both wild catches and domestic supply. Fish consumption is rising across the continent, driven...
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
Adut Akech’s green turn in a wasteful industry
A leading model lends her influence to greener design, but structural change in a wasteful industry remains slow By Ruth Mwangi and Agencies In an industry built on churn, where trends are designed to expire and garments are often worn only a handful of times, sustainability has long been...
Wild money: can impact capital save the safari industry from itself?
ESG-aligned investors are circling Africa’s tourism sector. Whether they can replace flawed financing models is a harder question. By Ethical Business Team ON A CLEAR morning in the Laikipia Plateau of northern Kenya, a helicopter ferries guests from a private airstrip to a lodge whose solar panels gleam against...
Employees need rest, but at what cost?
Kenyan and African firms experiment with wellbeing days as part of mental-health strategies, but their benefits remain limited By Our Staff Writer African firms are beginning to experiment with employee wellbeing days, policies that allow staff to take paid time off to rest or focus on mental health. Once...
WEEK SUMMARY TITLES
Capital, Credit and the quest for sustainable aquaculture in Kenya and beyond By Our Staff Writer NAIROBI — Africa’s...
Who really pays? By Philip Mwangangi The price of a bag of maize flour, a bunch of sukuma wiki,...
Kenya’s agribusinesses are discovering that ESG compliance is no longer optional. The harder question is who pays for it...
Greening East Africa’s dairy sector By Philip Mwangangi Kenya’s dairy sector is a study in competing pressures. Smallholder farmers...