The World Bank has pledged continued support for Tanzania's strategic development projects after its regional vice president met Finance Minister Khamis Mussa Omar in Bangkok, Tanzania's Daily News reported on 13 October 2026.
Microsoft said proposed changes have hit its Kenya engineering department, and ICT Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo asked it to protect jobs, Kenyans.co.ke reported on 13 October 2026.
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula told a legislators' forum in China that Kenya imported about US$5.19 billion of Chinese goods in 2025, Capital FM reported on 13 October.
Kenya's national and county governments owed Kenya Power KSh 7.35 billion in unpaid electricity bills in the year to June 2026, up 9.5%, equal to 17.7% of its gross postpaid receivables, Business Daily reported on 12 October 2026.
Transsion set the price at the bottom of its HK$35.30–38.80 range, and the H shares are due to start trading on 15 October, according to a 13 October filing reported by Zhitong Finance.
Heavy rain lets more mosquito eggs hatch, and people mostly catch Rift Valley fever from sick livestock, according to the WHO and the US CDC. Most of Kenya is expected to get above-average rain in the October–December short rains, according to a weather outlook dated 30 September, the Kenya News Agency reported in The Star on 5 October.
Customs collections were 101.1% of target and 5.8% above September 2025, with import value up 25.6%, the Kenya Revenue Authority said in a statement on 12 October 2026.
Health CS Aden Duale published Legal Notice No. 204 on 12 October, putting contacts of Ebola patients under quarantine for 21 days, making it an offence to ignore a quarantine order and banning the transfer of victims' bodies out of Kenya, The Star reported on 12 October 2026.
Treasury CS John Mbadi says a 2014 loan clause leaves KES 44.6 billion of SGR fares and freight income idle at KCB Bank, Business Daily reported on 12 October 2026.
Art Auction East Africa, which Danda Jaroljmek launched in 2013, offers 67 lots at Circle Art Gallery in Lavington on 28 October, with a preview party on 14 October, the auction's website says.
The Indian Ocean Dipole, a sea-temperature gap across the Indian Ocean, tends to bring heavier October–December rain to Kenya when its western side is warmer, the Kenya Meteorological Department says. A Kenya Meteorological Department official was quoted by the farming news site FarmBizAfrica on 18 September as saying the dipole was still neutral, and the World Meteorological Organization predicted on 8 October that it would peak in October.
Kenya's Dolphine Omare won the women's race at the Hyundai Half Marathon in Lisbon on 11 October 2026 in 1:07:25, with Margret Chacha second in 1:08:14, KBC reported.
