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Turmoil at The Nairobi Hospital
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In today's newsletter :
A leadership crisis is rocking The Nairobi Hospital
President William Ruto has signed into law reforms reshaping Kenya’s coffee industry
Kenya led East Africa in private capital activity in 2025
Turmoil at The Nairobi Hospital
The Nairobi Hospital
By TKWS Reporter
A leadership crisis is rocking The Nairobi Hospital after several senior board members, including the chairman and vice-chairman, were arrested amid ongoing governance disputes. The arrests have heightened tensions between management, medical staff, and the Kenya Hospital Association, sparking warnings of possible industrial action. Political figures have weighed in, claiming state interference in the hospital’s leadership decisions, adding another layer of controversy. Despite the turmoil, hospital management says patient services continue uninterrupted, though questions over governance stability linger.
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NSE Seeks Relief for Small Investors
NSE chairman Kiprono Kittony during the listing of Kenya Pipeline last week
By TKWS Reporter
At the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), the latest campaign to widen the investor base begins with a simple complaint: small trades carry surprisingly large tolls. Chairman Kiprono Kittony says the exchange is pressing the National Treasury of Kenya to trim or waive levies that make modest investments feel hardly worth the trouble. If the costs fall, the exchange hopes that a generation of first-time investors, armed with mobile trading apps and small balances, might finally wander onto Kenya’s trading floor.
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Rewriting the Coffee Playbook
By Brian Nzomo
Kenya has once again turned to institutional surgery to revive its storied coffee trade, after William Ruto signed a law creating a new Coffee Board of Kenya to oversee the sector. The reforms pull regulatory authority away from the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) and introduce a 2.5 percent levy on coffee exports and imports to bankroll the industry’s revival. A new research institute will meanwhile hunt for hardier coffee varieties and solutions to the diseases and climate pressures stalking Kenya’s farms. The hope, as ever, is that better institutions might restore some shine to a crop that once defined the country’s agricultural prestige.
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Kenya Pipeline Listing Drives NSE Rally
By Harry Njuguna
Kenya’s stock market passed a milestone last week, with investor wealth on the NSE topping KSh 3.5 trillion after Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) joined the exchange, instantly claiming a spot among the top ten most valuable firms. Large-cap banking and telecoms led the rebound, while trading in equities and bonds suggested renewed appetite after a brief selloff. Behind the numbers, corporate moves from Centum’s final Sidian Bank exit to the planned Safaricom stake sale, hint at a wave of restructuring reshaping Kenya’s financial landscape.
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INSIGHT : Kenya Topped East African Private Capital Activity in 2025
Nairobi City
By Brian Nzomo
Kenya led East Africa in private capital activity in 2025, claiming 19 percent of continental deals, just behind South Africa and Nigeria. Investors flocked to financial services, tech, and consumer sectors, leaving capital-heavy industries in the shadows. North Africa thrived on domestic fundamentals, while Nairobi’s market pulsed with regional ambitions across Uganda and Tanzania. After a decade of feverish fundraising, Africa’s private capital scene is settling into a steadier rhythm of strategic acquisitions, private credit, and disciplined growth.
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Crypto Insights with Luno
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Bitcoin held firm while stocks had a slight wobble, the SEC and CFTC buried the hatchet, and Oracle had a very good Tuesday. Here's what it all means for your investments.
🔸Last week, oil prices surged, geopolitical tensions simmered, and the S&P 500 saw some downside. Bitcoin sat there. Above $71,000. To understand why that's notable: in previous years, any serious macro stress usually sent crypto down first. Investors would dump risky assets, Bitcoin, stocks, and anything with volatility, and run to cash or bonds. That's not what happened here.
🔸 For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have been in a slow-motion turf war over who gets to regulate crypto. Last Wednesday, they announced a truce. The two agencies signed a Memorandum of Understanding, essentially a formal agreement to coordinate, share information, and stop duplicating each other's work.
🔸The Clarity Act, the big crypto market structure bill that would formally define who regulates what, got pushed back again. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said last Thursday that he doesn't expect it out of committee before April, at the earliest.The holdup? Stablecoin rewards. Banks don't want crypto platforms offering yield on stablecoins because they're worried it'll pull deposits away from traditional banking. Crypto advocates argue this is banks protecting their turf at everyone else's expense.
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