After the corporate job she had dreamed of did not materialise, Ruth Njeri Kabiru built a business producing certified potato seeds. Her next challenge: to get more farmers to use…

Solid’Africa began with friends cooking for patients who had no food. It now produces thousands of meals, supports specialised hospital diets and buys produce from smallholder farmers as it works…

A fishy business is scaling out of Africa’s informal markets as producers race to meet rising orders for fish leather and seaweed fibres, niche materials now edging into mainstream supply…

Kenyan businesses and community groups are turning discarded cotton stalks, gin waste and textile offcuts into briquettes, household textiles and mattress filling. The emerging industry could create new income for…

BY ERICK OTIENO In the rural villages of Nyatike South Sub-County, where poverty and limited economic opportunities continue to challenge many families, a small women’s revolving fund is quietly changing…

BY CHRISTINE ODIRA As dawn breaks over Migori Town, the day’s first queue is not outside a bank or a bus stage, but beside a water vendor. Mothers, traders, boda…

BY CENTRINE ODOYO  For residents of Nyatike Sub-County in Migori County, the prolonged drought has turned the search for water into a daily struggle, affecting both human and animal life…

BY EVETTA OBUYA Migori County for years, hundreds of women in rural villages across Migori County silently endured the pain, shame, and isolation caused by obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury…