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Kenya arms its cybercrime prosecutors as a scan finds 4.8 million leaked credentials
A state cyber-audit finds 4.8 million Kenyan credentials leaked online, State House unwinds the cargo tax that enraged small traders, and a Nairobi stablecoin pioneer plugs into six markets.
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Friday, 4 September 2026
A state cyber-audit finds 4.8 million Kenyan credentials leaked online, State House unwinds the cargo tax that enraged small traders, and a Nairobi stablecoin pioneer plugs into six markets.
- Kotani Pay takes stablecoin payouts continental with DCSPay
- Ruto rolls back the cargo taxes squeezing small online importers
- Standard Bank wants Stanbic to be Kenya's biggest bank by 2030
Thursday, 3 September 2026
A High Court judge suspends the state's grip on ride-hailing, detectives arrest fintech founders and a SIM-swap ring, and Uber trims a tenth of its global workforce — a day when Kenya's tech story ran through the courts.
- FlexPay founders arrested over a missing KES 31.2 million
- Four Chinese nationals held as DCI cracks a SIM-swap ring
- Women in STEM Africa Summit opens at KICC with an investor pitch arena
Wednesday, 2 September 2026
A Nairobi-built tax platform opens in Dubai, Konza's successor authority asks young designers to draw its new face, and Uber walks away from Nigeria after twelve years — a day about Kenyan software going out and global platforms pulling back.
- Technopolis Authority puts KES 1 million behind a new logo
- NBK half-year profit jumps 61% to KSh 1.72 billion
- Uber leaves Nigeria after twelve years — Kenya unaffected
Tuesday, 1 September 2026
Creators push back on the withholding tax landing in their October payouts, the regulator moves to recycle dormant phone numbers that now double as bank accounts, and two very large cheques are written for the continent's fibre.
- CA moves to recycle numbers dormant for three months
- BAKE proposes an Office of the Creator Ombudsman
- Intel puts free AI courses inside Kenya's public libraries
Monday, 31 August 2026
Airtel goes after the infrastructure licences that underpin Safaricom's dominance, Kenya's seat at the Digital Cooperation Organization is confirmed in Riyadh, and KRA wires its invoice system straight into the government's payment pipeline.
- Kenya's Digital Cooperation Organization membership gets the green light
- KRA plugs eTIMS into IFMIS to vet every government supplier invoice
- WHO switches on an AI-assisted health data hub for all 47 African member states
Sunday, 30 August 2026
The taxman reaches into Kenyan creators' AdSense payouts, NCBA and BasiGo put together the financing to electrify the matatu fleet, and a battle-tested Nairobi lender quietly crosses a billion dollars in loans to market traders.
- NCBA and BasiGo strike deal to finance 1,000 electric matatus
- SUN Mobility launches an open battery-swap network from Nairobi
- HFCB posts record half-year profit as its capital raise pays off
Saturday, 29 August 2026
Meta puts a price on the business chat window Kenyan banks and retailers have leaned on for free, Nairobi applies to join the bloc writing the world's digital trade rules, and the half-year books show how much of Kenyan banking has already moved onto the phone.
- Kenya applies to join the Digital Cooperation Organisation
- I&M's half-year profit climbs 22% as 92% of customers go digital
- Britam profit jumps 52% as it digitises marine cargo cover
Friday, 28 August 2026
A regulator draws new lines around the delivery apps, the grid runs perilously thin, and Kenya edges toward the world's main cybercrime treaty — a heavy day for the rules and the wires underneath the ecosystem.
- Kenya's power reserve margin collapses to 3.34%, reviving rationing fears
- Kenya moves closer to joining the Budapest Convention on cybercrime
- Nairobi's Flowt raises pre-seed to turn messy books into loan-ready data
Thursday, 27 August 2026
Welcome to the first edition: the stories shaping Kenyan tech this season, from a shake-up in Africa's funding league table to M-Pesa's biggest platform overhaul yet. A fresh digest lands here every evening at 9.
- Safaricom cuts M-Pesa fees for businesses in sweeping tariff revision
- Kenya's national AI policy heads toward Cabinet after public consultation
- Ziidi Trader puts the NSE inside 35 million M-Pesa wallets