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Long-distance travellers may grapple with higher bus fares. For the Nairobi-Mombasa route, the SGR could garner immense demand as its fare remains unchanged.
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As Bus Fares Edge Higher, SGR Eyes Opportunity
By Fred Obura
A sudden tax cut at the pump has not produced the kind of orderly relief policymakers might have hoped for, but instead a messy recalibration across Kenya’s long-distance transport market. Bus operators are adjusting fares unevenly, some locking in higher “new normals” while others hesitate, leaving passengers to navigate a shifting patchwork of prices. Against this volatility, the SGR’s unchanged fare card…steady at KSh 1,500 for economy between Nairobi and Mombasa, has acquired a quiet authority, less a competitor than an anchor. For cost-sensitive travellers, the train’s fixed pricing may become increasingly attractive amid fare uncertainty in the road sector.
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The Interruptions that African Economies Did Not Foresee
By Harry Njuguna
Sub-Saharan Africa entered 2026 on an unexpectedly strong footing, its best growth run in a decade, only to find that momentum quickly running into the headwinds of a distant war. What appeared like a clean macroeconomic story of lower inflation, narrowing deficits, improving debt trajectories has been complicated by rising fuel costs, tighter financial conditions, and renewed pressure on currencies and trade. For countries like Kenya, the shock is not abstract: it shows up in pricier energy imports, strained remittance corridors, and a fiscal position already leaning beyond its comfort zone. The region’s recovery now has to advance through turbulence it did not budget for.
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Diaspora Inflows Hit KSh 58bn in March
By Harry Njuguna
In March, Kenyans abroad wired home a record KSh 58 billion, a flood of money arriving even as the Middle East edged deeper into uncertainty. The figure, the highest ever for a single month, underscored how the country’s external balance now depends less on export ships in Mombasa and more on payrolls in Minneapolis, Manchester, and increasingly Dubai’s shifting labor market. Yet beneath the headline strength, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has already trimmed its full-year outlook, wary that Gulf disruptions and geopolitical tremors could blunt what has become Kenya’s most reliable source of foreign exchange.
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OPINION : Why Good Governance Should Power Africa's Energy Wealth
Africa’s energy wealth is not in doubt, but its conversion into development remains a question of governance rather than geology. Across the continent, abundant solar, wind, gas, and hydro potential coexist with low electricity consumption, underinvestment, and persistent reliance on diesel-powered systems. This is because markets respond less to resource endowment than to institutional credibility; where rules are stable, capital flows. In that sense, Africa’s energy transition is less about choosing between fossil fuels and renewables than about building systems capable of turning both into lasting public value.
Sola Adebawo writes >>>>>
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