Hapakenya News Updates

The Presidential Innovation Challenge and Award (PIA) Youth Category (Out of School) award ceremony to recognize innovations from youths who are out of school across various counties in the country. Twenty-eight innovators from twenty-eight different counties emerged as winners after innovation pitches were conducted earlier in the year. Having been… Read more »

Airtel Kenya has launched a ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Spam Alert Service, which will be available to all its subscribers at no cost. The service will offer Airtel smartphone and feature phone customers real-time alerts for suspected spam SMS messages and it will be automatically activated for all Airtel customers.… Read more »

Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (Encounters 2025) is set for Cape Town and  Johannesburg from 19 to 29 June. The festival will showcase documentaries from over 40 countries at cinemas in Cape Town and  Johannesburg. “In 2024, Encounters presented three of the five documentaries later nominated for Oscars,  including… Read more »

AGRA has reiterated its commitment to transforming African agriculture, emphasizing the need for enhanced investment in smallholder farmers. This is against a backdrop of increasing global instability and evolving development support. The recent shift in global development policy has upstaged the decades-long development financing framework with far-reaching consequences. The agency… Read more »

Recent trends in the smartphone manufacturing industry have made it possible for the average smartphone users to easily have access smartphones that have features and designs that would otherwise be beyond their budget.  According to Communications Authority of Kenya the current smartphone usage and penetration rate stands at 72.6% representing… Read more »

National Women’s Volleyball Defending Champions KCB will play against the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) in the Kenya Volleyball Federation League playoffs. They are scheduled to take place on May 9-11 at the Nyayo Stadium. The bankers will face KDF on Friday May 9 in the first round before their second… Read more »

The inaugural edition of the campus modeling scouting initiative, a university-based talent discovery program, has successfully concluded. The initiative organized by Pwani Oil in partnership with DF Casting and Management Ltd aims to discover, nurture, and launch the next generation of modeling talent. It also seeks to promote beauty, grooming,… Read more »

The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) and Kenya Forest Service (KFS), with support from Sukuma Twende Trust, held a tree planting event at Uplands Forest Station, Mataathia Block, to rehabilitate 40 hectares of indigenous plantation by planting 46,000 trees. Speaking during the event, Sukuma Twende Director, Amit Shah, explained why… Read more »

Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) has announced a partnership with Tranoï to showcase Spring/ Summer collections by 35 African fashion designers at the Paris and Japan fashion weeks. CANEX is an initiative by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to promote Africa’s creative and cultural industries and Tranoï are organisers of international fashion events,… Read more »

Air Asia has announced that it will terminate its Nairobi route later this year. The budget airline launched flights from Kuala Lumpur and the Kenyan capital in November 2024. The flights to Nairobi were Air Asia’s first route to Africa and its introduction to the African market, with direct flights… Read more »