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Days after the resignation of Marjan Hussein Marjan as the Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC, the electoral agency has now appointed Moses Ledama Sunkuli  to take over in an acting capacity. Making the announcement, the commission said Sunkuli who was the commission’s electoral operations director until his new appointment, […]
The Kenyan soccer fraternity has been thrown into mourning after Kakamega Homeboys Football Club announced the death of its midfielder Silas Abungana. Reports say Abungana died after being viciously attacked by his younger brother following a family dispute. According to the Western Kenya based club, the 10-game league regular who sustained head injuries during the […]
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No more KOKO as company shuts doors

Dickens Luvanda
February 2, 2026
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Kenya’s clean-cooking pioneer Koko Networks has shut down operations and laid off about 700 employees, marking a dramatic collapse of one of the country’s most celebrated climate-tech startups and raising fresh questions about regulation, carbon markets, and public finance. The company, which supplied subsidised bioethanol cooking fuel to an estimated 1.5 million households, ceased operations […]