The Price of Predictable Floods

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The Price of Predictable Floods

By Phenyo Mokgothu

Each rainy season, rivers in Kenya swell and neighborhoods vanish beneath brown water, and yet the pattern seems perpetually surprising. Experts warn that the floods are no accident of weather but a predictable collision of climate change, rapid urban growth, and fragile infrastructure. Calls for anticipatory planning and international support grow louder, but the work of building resilience remains slow, bureaucratic, and incomplete. Meanwhile, thousands of families are uprooted each year, living in the space between warning and catastrophe.

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A New Milestone in Kenyan Cardiology 

By TKWS Reporter 

Kenyan surgeons have rewritten the rules of heart care, performing the first leadless pacemaker implantation in Sub-Saharan Africa without a surgical blade. The device, no larger than a pill, navigated a vein in the leg to settle inside the patient’s heart, eliminating the need for wires or a chest incision. For the patient, whose veins were blocked by years of dialysis and prior treatments, the procedure offered a solution that conventional pacemakers could not. Beyond a single success, the operation proves that world-class medicine can thrive well outside traditional global hubs.

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Mwita’s Uphill Task at Standard Group

By Harry Njuguna

Chaacha Mwita takes over as CEO of Standard Group PLC at a moment when the company is fighting for its broadcast licences, carrying regulatory debt, and navigating a collapse in advertising revenue. His appointment, the fifth in under three years, closes a cycle of executive churn even as the business itself remains unsettled. Mwita, once forced out under political pressure, now returns to lead the same institution in a dispute he has framed as political. What he inherits is a newsroom under siege and a balance sheet under strain.

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HF Group Rebounds to Tier II Status

By Harry Njuguna 

HF Group’s turnaround hinges on a treasury-led strategy that leaned heavily into government securities, recasting the bank’s recovery as a bet on yields rather than borrowers.

Financial Snapshot :

🟢 HF Group PLC posted a record KSh 1.42 billion profit after tax in FY2025.

🟢 Total assets rose to KSh 82.40 billion and deposits climbed 18.4% to KSh 56.90 billion.

🟢 A 66% expansion in government securities to KSh 28.27 billion generated KSh 2.83 billion in investment income (up 79%).

🟢 Net interest income jumped 63.8% to KSh 4.36 billion

🟢 Core capital reached KSh 10.15 billion after a rights issue, prompting the Central Bank of Kenya to reclassify its banking unit to Tier II.

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OPINION : When Opinion Starts Dressing Up as Expertise

 We are drifting into a culture where opinion travels faster than understanding, and begins to pass for it. Decisions tilt toward confidence and taste…what feels right, what sounds good, rather than the slower authority of training and experience. The boundary between contribution and interference blurs, until expertise is treated as optional rather than foundational. And once that shift settles in, standards loosen quietly, followed not long after by trust.

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