Author: Kaluka wanjala

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba has officially announced the release of the 2025 KCSE examination results. According to the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), 993,226 candidates sat for the 2025 KCSE examinations, compared to 962,512 candidates in 2024. Of these, 492,012 were male while 501,214 were female, making this the second year in a row that female candidates outnumbered male candidates. Overall, 50 per cent of the candidates were girls. In terms of performance, 1,932 candidates (0.19%) obtained an overall mean grade of A (plain). This represents an improvement from 1,693 candidates (0.18%) in 2024. 270,715 candidates (27.18%) attained…

Moringa School has announced a strategic partnership with the Nomad Futurist Foundation and iXAfrica Data Centres aimed at preparing young professionals for careers in Africa’s fast-growing data centre and digital infrastructure sector. The collaboration combines structured online learning with real-world exposure. It is designed to address a growing skills gap as cloud computing, AI workloads, fintech platforms and digital public infrastructure rapidly scale across the continent. Nomad Futurist will contribute its global digital infrastructure education platform and industry insight, working with Moringa School to deliver a short, structured online course focused on data centre fundamentals. Participants will be introduced to…

Flutterwave has acquired Mono, one of Africa’s leading open banking infrastructure providers. Mono provides API-driven access to financial data, identity verification and account-to-account payments. It will continue to operate independently following the transaction. There will be no changes to Mono’s leadership, team, or day-to-day operations, allowing the company to maintain its innovation velocity while aligning strategically with Flutterwave’s broader payments platform. By integrating Mono’s open banking APIs, Flutterwave strengthens its ability to support faster onboarding, improved verification, reduced fraud and seamless account-to-account payments across multiple markets. The integration also opens the door to richer alternative payment methods and, over time,…

Westcon-Comstor and Nokia have expanded their partnership to drive growth and also deliver greater value to channel partners across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This partnership is different from the fulfilment-focused model to a more proactive and growth-driven approach. The two companies will work closely on joint market engagement, pipeline development and co-selling opportunities. Under the new arrangement, Westcon-Comstor will onboard dedicated direct-touch sales resources in select MEA markets. These teams will work proactively with partners and end customers to identify opportunities for Nokia’s enterprise and network infrastructure solutions. In parallel, Nokia will provide specialist technical insight to…

Africa’s blockchain and artificial intelligence ecosystem is often discussed in headlines and policy papers, but rarely documented through the people actually building it on the ground. In this episode of the TechArena Podcast, we sat down with key voices behind BeyondTheCode.ai, a global documentary series exploring how emerging technologies are being built, used and experienced across Africa and the Global South. Watch the full podcast episode below A documentary focused on people, not just platforms BeyondTheCode.ai is not a traditional tech documentary. As co-producer and founder Nefertiti Angelisa Strong explains, the series focuses on the human, cultural, and community layer…

The UAE’s newly announced US$1 billion AI for Development initiative could provide Kenya with a rare opportunity to move from ambitious AI policy to real-world implementation. The initiative was unveiled during the G20 Summit by H.H. Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The announcement comes at a critical moment for Kenya. In March, the government launched its National AI Strategy 2025–2030, positioning the country as Africa’s leading AI hub for model innovation, research and applied solutions that drive economic growth and social inclusion. Crucially, the strategy acknowledges that partnerships-not isolation-will determine Africa’s AI…

MYDAWA has completed a major upgrade of its website and mobile applications, aimed at delivering a more secure, reliable and intuitive healthcare experience for customers. This was revealed by MYDAWA’s CEO, Al Theuri,on LinkedIn.  The upgrade followed more than 16 months of development and testing. There were some challenges initially that affected sign-ins, order placements and delivery timelines. If you have a startup you want featured on TechArena, let us know through this contact form here. The issues were primarily linked to the order management system and intermittent app-specific glitches according to the CEO. The MYDAWA team deployed fixes across the web platform,…

TechArena is set to break the story of a new documentary series from BeyondTheCode.ai and XRAgency.co that tells Africa’s blockchain and AI story through a cultural lens, filmed live around the Cardano Africa Tech Summit (CATS) at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi. The series will spotlight how Cardano, working with Wada.org and The Blockchain Center Nairobi, is positioning Nairobi as a key hub for decentralized innovation.​ The BeyondTheCode.ai docu‑series will follow developers, founders and creatives as they plug into blockchain and AI infrastructure supported by Cardano Catalyst and the Cardano Foundation, turning Nairobi into a live stage for Africa’s innovation story.…

Vertiv and GreenScale, a developer of hyperscale data centre campuses, have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver factory-integrated data centre platforms engineered for next-generation AI workloads in Europe. Following a competitive pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) process, GreenScale selected Vertiv as its preferred provider for standardised, prefabricated Vertiv OneCore hybrid-built data centres. While GreenScale will manage slab-down construction and site-wide infrastructure, Vertiv will provide AI-ready data centre modules engineered to support liquid-cooled deployments of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200/300 graphic processing units (GPUs), including next-generation Vera Rubin GPUs. “AI workloads demand density and speed,” said Vedran Brzic, VP infrastructure solutions business EMEA, Vertiv. “By integrating the…

Safaricom has officially listed its Green Bond on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). According to the company, 2,453 individual investors accounted for 96% of all applications. This highlights the growing retail appetite for capital markets products when access barriers are lowered. Nearly six in ten applications were submitted via USSD, with payments completed through M-PESA. Safaricom received total applications worth KES 41.4 billion but will take up KES 20 billion in the first tranche of its Domestic Medium-Term Note (MTN) programme. The offer was oversubscribed by 175 percent, signalling strong market confidence in the telco’s financial position and long-term strategy.…